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...

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...

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....

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 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 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...

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 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...

Financial Times, Goldman Sachs Launch Business Book Award LONDON/4/4/06—The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs have launched the Business Book of the Year Award 2006, following the success of last year’s inaugural Award. The Award is designed to highlight the business...

Dick Francis’s New Book to Be Published By G.P. Putnam’s NEW YORK/NY/4/4/06—Dick Francis, the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author, has written his first novel in six years, Under Orders. Ivan Held, President of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, long-time publisher of...