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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 13-20, 2006 Edition FSG Launches Huge Online Promo For Frenay’s Novel NEW YORK, NY/4/10/06—Farrar, Strauss and Giroux this week launched a huge online effort for the release of Robert Frenay’s Pulse. The promotion includes the simultaneous...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 13-20, 2006 Edition Basic Books Publisher Maguire Dies at Age 47 NEW YORK, NY/4/10/2006Elizabeth Maguire, publisher of Basic Books, part of the Perseus Books Group, died April 8 after a battle with ovarian cancer. She was 47 years old....

The Loft to Close Literary Magazine, Shifting Efforts to Net MINNEAPOLIS, MN/4/10/06—The literary magazine Speakeasy, published by The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, will cease publication effective with the June 15 edition. The quarterly magazine had a...

Rotor Named Editor at Penguin NEW YORK, NY/4/10/06—Penguin Classics has named Elda Rotor as executive editor of Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books. She comes to Penguin from Oxford University Press where she was senior editor. She’ll report to Stephen...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 6 - 13, 2006 Edition Harry Potter Publisher, Bloomsbury, Reports 29% Year-End Sales Increase LONDON/4/4/2006—Bloomsbury, Plc., publishers of the Harry Potter series, reported an increase in sales of 29.2% to £109.11m (2004, £84.45m) for the...