AWARDS June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition Irish Magazine Offers Sci/Fi/Fan Story Award Albedo One, The Irish Magazine of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, has announced its second annual Aeon Award for short fiction for 2006-2007. There will be a cash grand prize and...
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Jeffrey Dvorkin Heads New Concerned Journalists Committee
PEOPLE June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition Jeffrey Dvorkin Heads New Concerned Journalists Committee COLUMBIA, MO/6/16/06Jeffrey Dvorkin, the first network news ombudsman in the U.S., has been named the new executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and...
UK Booksellers Side With US in Opposing British Rights Grab
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition UK Booksellers Side With US in Opposing British Rights Grab DALLAS//NEW YORK, NY/6/19/06Five European booksellers and distributors have signed and sent an open letter to British and American publishers...
John Wiley & Sons Hits Billion-Dollar Mark Reports Record Year
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition John Wiley & Sons Hits Billion-Dollar Mark Reports Record Year Hoboken, NJ/06/15/06John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa) (NYSE: JWb) has announced record revenue, operating income, and EPS for fiscal year 2006....
Children’s Cloth Books Recalled by Simon & Schuster
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition Children's Cloth Books Recalled by Simon & Schuster WASHINGTON, DC/6/15/06The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission ( www.cpsc.gov.) in cooperation with Simon & Schuster, has announced a voluntary recall of the...
Authors Visits With School Kids To Promote Reading
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition Authors Visits With School Kids To Promote Reading NEW YORK, NY/6/20/06The Association of American Publishers and the Childrens Book Council have established a new program to give New York City public school...
Authorlink to Launch Streamlined Marketing Site for Writers, Publishers, Agents
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Authorlink to LaunchStreamlined Marketing Site for Writers, Publishers, Agents DALLAS/NEW YORK/June 1, 2006Authorlink.com, among the longest running and highest ranked marketing sites for editors, agents, writers,...
Thomas Nelson Shareholders Approve Merger
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Thomas Nelson Shareholders Approve MergerNASHVILLE, TN/6/8/2006Thomas Nelson, Inc. (NYSE:TNM - News) announced that, at a Special Meeting of Shareholders held June 8, its shareholders overwhelmingly approved the...
Microsoft to Collaborate With University Libraries for Live Book Search
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Microsoft to CollaborateWith University Librariesfor Live Book SearchREDMOND, WASH/6/9/2006Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) has announced two key advances in Windows Live(TM) Book Search, a service that will...
Borders Lays Off 90 Staff Members In All Departments
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Borders Lays Off 90 Staff Members In All DepartmentsNEW YORK, NY/6/9/06Borders Group, in an effort to better balance costs with revenues, has cut its staff by about 6%. In all, about 90 people have been laid off in...
