MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 22 - June 29, 2006 Edition Authors’ Visits With School Kids To Promote Reading NEW YORK, NY/6/20/06—The Association of American Publishers and the Children’s Book Council have established a new program to give New York City public school...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Authorlink to LaunchStreamlined Marketing Site for Writers, Publishers, Agents DALLAS/NEW YORK/June 1, 2006—Authorlink.com, among the longest running and highest ranked marketing sites for editors, agents, writers,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Thomas Nelson Shareholders Approve MergerNASHVILLE, TN—/6/8/2006—Thomas Nelson, Inc. (NYSE:TNM - News) announced that, at a Special Meeting of Shareholders held June 8, its shareholders overwhelmingly approved the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Microsoft to CollaborateWith University Librariesfor Live Book SearchREDMOND, WASH/6/9/2006—Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) has announced two key advances in Windows Live(TM) Book Search, a service that will...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Borders Lays Off 90 Staff Members In All DepartmentsNEW YORK, NY/6/9/06—Borders 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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Steinbeck’s HeirsWin Control of Rights,Penguin Due to Appeal NEW YORK, NY/6/12/06—The late author John Steinbeck's son and granddaughter won a U.S. District Court battle this month to get control of the publishing...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Houghton Mifflin Offers Booksellers Free Book Shipment NEW YORK, NY/6/13/06—Houghton Mifflin, in an effort to become more competitive on its terms of sale, will begin offering free freight to booksellers with orders...

AWARDS June 15 - June 22, 2006 Edition Iweala Wins NY Library's Young Lion PrizeNEW YORK NY/6/08/06—The New York Public Library named Uzodinma Iweala, author of the novel Beasts of No Nation (HarperCollins), as the winner of its annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Publisher UrgesFast Food Giants To Focus on FactsNew York, NY/6/1/2006—Houghton Mifflin Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Eamon Dolan today denounced the fast food industry's efforts to discredit the author Eric...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Market Tip: Hachette Plans New Sci Fi Fantasy Imprint for 2007NEW YORK, NY/6/5/2006—Hachette Book Group USA will launch a new science fiction/fantasy imprint named Orbit in 2007. Tim Holman, publishing director of...