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,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Book Industry TRENDS 2006 Shows Publishers’ Revenues at $34.59 Billion NEW YORK, NY/5/22/06—The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has just released the first truly comprehensive view of U.S. book publishing dollar and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Posts 2% Gain in Sales For First Quarter New York, NY/5/18/06—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today reported sales and earnings for the first quarter ended April 29,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Kansas Court Finds AuthorHouse Guilty in Libel Case WICHITA, KANSAS/5/25/06—Kansas State Court Judge Jeff Goering is scheduled today to set the amount of punitive damages to be paid by AuthorHouse, a print-on-demand...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition NBC, MSNBC to Allow TV Audiences to Vote On Quill Publishing Awards NEW YORK, NY/5/23/06—Returning in its second year, The Quill Awards, supported by Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 – June 1, 2006 Edition BookExpo Offers Free Podcasts Of 2006 Exhibit For the first time in its history, BookExpo America (BEA), the largest and most important exhibition for the publishing industry, will make its programming available to the...

DK Publishing Acquires First Book From "Iron Chef" NEW YORK, NY/5/22/06—DK Publishing, international publisher of illustrated trade books, announced that it has acquired the first book from famed chef, Masaharu Morimoto. The title, Morimoto, will be released in...