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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/6/7/06—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...

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/6/5/06—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...

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/6/5/2006—Hachette Book Group USA will launch a new science fiction/fantasy imprint named Orbit in 2007. Tim Holman, publishing director of...

Publisher Urges Fast Food Giants To Focus on Facts

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...

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/5/29/2006—In the tiny Texas town of Archer City, where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry grew up and later opened a bookstore,...

Margaret Atwood Stuart McLean Among Hay fest Celbs

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...

Barbara Walters Cancels Contract With Miramax?

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1 - June 8, 2006 Edition Barbara Walters Cancels Contract With Miramax? NEW YORK, NY/5/30/2006—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

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...

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/5/30/2006—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....

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/5/18/06—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today reported sales and earnings for the first quarter ended April 29,...