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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 20-27, 2006 Edition B&N Chief Upbeat on Book Sales for Future NEW YORK, NY/4/18/06—Barnes & Noble CEO Stephen Riggio said in a New York Times interview April 15 that “Reports of the book industry’s demise have been greatly exaggerated over...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 13-20, 2006 Edition BREAKING NEWS: Brooks Wins Pulitzer Prize For Civil War Novel NEW YORK, NY/4/17/2006—Geraldine Brooks’s March (Viking) has been awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, beating out another favorite Civil War epic by...

Houghton Mifflin Produces Series Of Poetry Podcasts NEW YORK, NY/4/11/ 2006—Houghton Mifflin is using a series of podcasts to promote some of its new poetry titles. The series was launched April 10 during National Poetry month. Poets will read their works in...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 13-20, 2006 Edition Foundation Backs Publishing Group’s Distribution Program CHICAGO, IL/4/12/06—A partnership between six non-profit publishers, the nation's largest book wholesaler, and a group of chain and independent bookstores announced...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 13-20, 2006 Edition Graphic Arts Center Files for Bankruptcy, Refinancing Efforts Fail PORTLAND, OR/4/10/06—Graphic Arts Center Publishing, a large Northwest publisher based in Portland, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 7, after several...