MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Publisher UrgesFast Food Giants To Focus on FactsNew York, NY/6/1/2006Houghton Mifflin Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Eamon Dolan today denounced the fast food industry's efforts to discredit the author Eric...
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Market Tip: Hachette Plans New Sci Fi Fantasy Imprint for 2007
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Market Tip: Hachette Plans New Sci Fi Fantasy Imprint for 2007NEW YORK, NY/6/5/2006Hachette Book Group USA will launch a new science fiction/fantasy imprint named Orbit in 2007. Tim Holman, publishing director of...
SCORE Founder Lands Book Deal With Adams Media
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition SCORE Founder Lands Book Deal With Adams MediaNEW YORK, NY/6/5/06Adams Media has signed a contract with educator Sharon Marshall Lockett to publish her book Home Sweet Homework: A Parents Guide to Stress Free...
Library of America To Open Boutique On Amazon.com
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Library of America To Open Boutique On Amazon.comNEW YORK, NY/6/7/06The Library of America will soon have a boutique retail store inside Amazon.com where it will sell classic books. The LOA is a nonprofit publisher...
Ebrary Expands Online Databases For eBook Titles
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Ebrary Expands Online Databases For eBook TitlesPALTO ALTO, CA/6/5/06The latest e-books releases by publishers such as AMACOM Books, McGraw-Hill, and John Wiley & Sons, will now become easily accessible online to...
Literary Magazines Offer Lecture Series For Emerging Writers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Literary Magazines Offer Lecture Series For Emerging WritersNew York/NYThe Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a...
New Trade Book Wholesaler to Offer Flat Fee Discounts
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition New Trade Book Wholesaler to Offer Flat Fee DiscountsNEW YORK, NY/6/6/06BookStream, a new trade book wholesaler located in Poughkeepsie, NY is open for business. A company spokesman said the company has reached the...
US, UK Turf Wars Could Seriously Impact Authors
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition US, UK Turf Wars Could Seriously Impact Authors NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006Perhaps the hottest topic to emerge from the recent BookExpo America exhibition in Washington D.C. is the growing problem of turf wars between U.S....
HarperCollins Books To Be Developed For TV, DVD Market
HarperCollins Books To Be Developed For TV, DVD Market NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006HarperCollins announced late last week that it has made a deal with its sister company, Fox Television Studios (both are owned by NewsCorp) that will allow programming based on the...
Barbara Walters Cancels Contract With Miramax?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Barbara Walters Cancels Contract With Miramax? NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006Barbara Walters reportedly has canceled a contract with Miramax, thought to be worth somewhere between $4 million and $6 million, for her memoirs...
