MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Margaret Atwood Stuart McLean Among Hay fest Celbs HAY-ON-WYE, Wales/5/29/2006Margaret Atwood, Stuart McLean and Shane Koyczan will make appearances at the Hay Festival, which is now taking place in Wales and runs...
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Writing Class in McMurtry’s Archer City Inspires Students
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Writing Class in McMurtry's Archer City Inspires Students DENTON (UNT), TX/5/29/2006In the tiny Texas town of Archer City, where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry grew up and later opened a bookstore,...
Book Industry TRENDS 2006 Shows Publishers? Revenues at $34.59 Billion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Book Industry TRENDS 2006 Shows Publishers Revenues at $34.59 Billion NEW YORK, NY/5/22/06The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has just released the first truly comprehensive view of U.S. book publishing dollar and...
Barnes & Noble Posts 2% Gain in Sales For First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Posts 2% Gain in Sales For First Quarter New York, NY/5/18/06Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today reported sales and earnings for the first quarter ended April 29,...
Kansas Court Finds AuthorHouse Guilty in Libel Case
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition Kansas Court Finds AuthorHouse Guilty in Libel Case WICHITA, KANSAS/5/25/06Kansas State Court Judge Jeff Goering is scheduled today to set the amount of punitive damages to be paid by AuthorHouse, a print-on-demand...
NBC, MSNBC to Allow TV Audiences to Vote On Quill Publishing Awards
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 25 - June 1, 2006 Edition NBC, MSNBC to Allow TV Audiences to Vote On Quill Publishing Awards NEW YORK, NY/5/23/06Returning in its second year, The Quill Awards, supported by Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television...
BookExpo Offers Free Podcasts Of 2006 Exhibit
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...
May 25 – June 1, 2006
DK Publishing Acquires First Book From "Iron Chef" NEW YORK, NY/5/22/06DK 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...
Publishers, TV Networks To Launch Unprecedented Kids’ Bilingual Programming
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 18-25, 2006 Edition Publishers, TV Networks To Launch Unprecedented Kids Bilingual Programming New York, NY/5/9/06In an unprecedented combination of distribution and content players in childrens television, Scholastic, NBC Universal, Corus...
Publishing Sales Maintain Upward Climb in March
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 18-25, 2006 Edition Publishing Sales Maintain Upward Climb in March NEW YORK, NY/5/15/06Book sales remained steady in March for most of the categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Childrens /YA Hardcover rose while...
