MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 27 – May 4, 2006 Edition CBS Corporation Reports 4% Gain In Revenues NEW YORK, NY/4/26/06—CBS Corporation (NYSE: BS.A and CBS), which now owns Simon & Schuster, has reported results for the first quarter ended March 31,2006, posting solid...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 27 – May 4, 2006 Edition Random House Refuses Author’s Plagiarism Apology NEW YORK, NY/4/25/06—Crown/Random House has indicated that it may not accept author Kaavya Viswanaathan’s apology for having “unintentionally” copied a number of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 27 - May 4, 2006 Edition Atria Senior Editor Launches Nonprofit Event for Ethic Authors Malaika Adero, a senior editor at Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, has launched a nonprofit organization to produce an annual book and arts festival. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 27 - May 4, 2006 Edition Annie Callanan Named President and CEO of Bowker NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ/4/18/06—Annie Callanan, a seasoned executive who has successfully led a number of business-to-business media companies, has been named the new...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 27 - May 4, 2006 Edition Professional Critics To Write Commentary For NBCC’s New Blog The National Book Critics Circle launched its own Blog April 21. The site will feature publishing and criticism, news and commentary, noteworthy reviews,...

Billionaire Trump Teams With Kiyosaki To Self Publish Book NEW YORK, NY/4/25/06—Billionaire Donald Trump and millionaire Robert Kiyosaki have decided to jointly self-publish a book about investing, which has not yet been titled. The new book, to be released in...

SPJ Announces 2005 Green Eyeshade Award Recipients Indianapolis, IN/4/18/06—The Society of Professional Journalists announced today the winners of the 2005 Green Eyeshade Awards. The Green Eyeshade Awards have honored the best in professional journalism in 11...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 20-27, 2006 Edition Random House Launches New Mystery Paperback Line, Mortalis Random House Trade Paperbacks will launch a new program, Mortalis, featuring mysteries and thrillers that are historical and/or international in scope, in Spring...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 20-27, 2006 Edition Susan McGrath Named VP, Executive Editor of Riverhead Books New York, NY/4/18/06—Sarah McGrath has been appointed Vice President and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books, it was announced April 18 by Geoffrey Kloske, Vice...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 20-27, 2006 Edition Wiley Forms New Partnership With Epocrates Hoboken, NJ/4/18/06—Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced a new agreement with Epocrates, Inc., provider of mobile and web-based clinical applications, to make...