MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition SCORE Founder Lands Book Deal With Adams MediaNEW YORK, NY/6/5/06—Adams Media has signed a contract with educator Sharon Marshall Lockett to publish her book Home Sweet Homework: A Parent’s Guide to Stress Free...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Library of America To Open Boutique On Amazon.comNEW YORK, NY/6/7/06—The 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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Ebrary Expands Online Databases For eBook TitlesPALTO ALTO, CA/6/5/06—The latest e-books releases by publishers such as AMACOM Books, McGraw-Hill, and John Wiley & Sons, will now become easily accessible online to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition Literary Magazines Offer Lecture Series For Emerging WritersNew York/NY—The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 8 - June 15, 2006 Edition New Trade Book Wholesaler to Offer Flat Fee DiscountsNEW YORK, NY/6/6/06—BookStream, a new trade book wholesaler located in Poughkeepsie, NY is open for business. A company spokesman said the company has reached the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition US, UK Turf Wars Could Seriously Impact Authors NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006—Perhaps 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 NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006—HarperCollins 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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Barbara Walters Cancels Contract With Miramax? NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006—Barbara Walters reportedly has canceled a contract with Miramax, thought to be worth somewhere between $4 million and $6 million, for her memoirs...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Margaret Atwood Stuart McLean Among Hay fest Celbs HAY-ON-WYE, Wales/5/29/2006—Margaret Atwood, Stuart McLean and Shane Koyczan will make appearances at the Hay Festival, which is now taking place in Wales and runs...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Writing Class in McMurtry's Archer City Inspires Students DENTON (UNT), TX/5/29/2006—In the tiny Texas town of Archer City, where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry grew up and later opened a bookstore,...