MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 27 - August 3, 2006 Edition S&S Consolidates Sales Force, Expands to Specialty Markets NEW YORK, NY/7/24/06—Simon & Schuster is reorganizing its field sales force beyond chains and independent booksellers to include specialty...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 27 - August 3, 2006 Edition Bernard Departs Harcourt to Join Guggenheim NEW YORK, NY/7/24/06—Andre Bernard, longtime publisher and vice president of Harcourt Publishing, is leaving in early August to become vice president of the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition Central Coast Book Festival Celebrates Reading and Writing San Luis Obispo, CA/7/18/06—Book lovers by the thousands will converge upon San Luis Obispo’s Mission Plaza for the 7th Annual Central Coast Book & Author...

PEOPLE July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition Gagliano Moves to Perigee from Clarkson Potter NEW YORK, NY/7/18/06—Maria Gagliano has been named an associate editor at Perigee Books, a division of Penguin group USA, which includes HP Books and Prentice Hall Press. Ms....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition Borders Group Names George L. Jones President, CEO ANN ARBOR, MI/7/17/06—George L. Jones has taken over as president, chief executive officer, and a director of Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) effective July...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition AAP Says Web Design, Audio Jobs Show Largest Gains in Book Industry NEW YORK, NY/7/18/06—Reflecting the growing power of the Internet as a medium for accessing and marketing published works, positions in web...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition Random House May Acquire Christian Publisher NEW YORK, NY/7/17/06—Oregon-based Multnomah Publishers, a Christian press headed by Don Jacobson as president and publisher, has been placed up for sale and rumors...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 20 - July 27, 2006 Edition EDC Plans To Acquire Intervisual Books TULSA, OK/7/18/06—Tulsa-based Educational Development Corp., which distributes the UK publisher Usborne Publishing’s line of children’s books in the U.S.,...

Breaking News B& N Executives Face Lawsuit on Backdating Options LONDON/NEW YORK/7/14/1006—Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, has called for a review of its own practices over executive share options, after a shareholder filed a lawsuit charging B&N with...

Feiwel & Friends To Co-Publish Kids’ Books With Macmillan NEW YORK, NY/7/10/2006—Two divisions of Holtzbrinck Publishers—one in the US and the other in the UK, will co-publish certain titles beginning in the fall of 2007. Feiwel & Friends, a new Holtzbrinck imprint in...