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 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 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 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...

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 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 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 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...

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 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....