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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...

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/5/23/06—Returning in its second year, The Quill Awards, supported by Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television...

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/5/25/06—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...

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,...

May 18-25, 2006

Random House Launches Initiative To Boost Paper Recycling NEW YORK, NY/5/16/06—In the most substantial environmental initiative in the company’s history, Random House, Inc., the U.S. division of Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, has announced...

Oxford Press Merges Trade Academic Divisions

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 18-25, 2006 Edition Oxford Press Merges Trade Academic Divisions Oxford, England/5/17/06—Oxford University Press will merge its U.S. trade and academic divisions under the direction of publisher Niko Pfund. As a result, three staff members will...

Graywolf Press To Open Offices In New York City

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 18-25, 2006 Edition Graywolf Press To Open Offices In New York City NEW YORK, NY/5/17/06—Graywolf Press, a successful non-profit Minnesota publisher, will open a second office this spring in New York City, but has no plans to shift its focus...

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/5/15/06—Book sales remained steady in March for most of the categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Children’s /YA Hardcover rose while...