MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 6 - 13, 2006 Edition Bloomsbury Pays £400,000 for Memoirs By Ex-UK Politician LONDON/4/3/06—Bloomsbury Publishing, home to the Harry Potter series, has reportedly paid former UK cabinet minister David Blunkett a £400,000 advance for “The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 6 - 13, 2006 Edition Sony’s New PRS-500 Reader to Be iTunes of the Book World? 4/4/06—Sony’s new PRS-500 Portable Reader may be the iTunes of Books, according to an article on ZDNet’s blog. The reader will soon be available for sale at...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 6 - 13, 2006 Edition Brookings Scholar Says Russian President Putin Plagiarized US Book WASHINGTON/4/3/06—A Brookings Institution scholar says Russian President Vladimir Putin may have plagiarized a book written by two U.S. professors,...

Talking to Editors Who Publish Erotica And Why It Is So Hot NEW YORK, NY/4/4/2006—An Associate Press item on MSNBC’s web site gives a good inside look at who is publishing erotica, and why. It's hard to ignore erotica sales figures, the story points out. There’s a...

Producers Acquire Rights to Fletcher’s Upcoming Nove NEW YORK, NY/3/21/06—British screenwriter Charlie Fletcher has sold movie rights to his contemporary novel Stoneheart, which will be released in the U.S. by Hyperion and in the U.K. by Hachette in September 2006....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 30 - April 6, 2006 Edition Penguin Kids’ Group Inks Film/TV Venture NEW YORK, NY/3/27/06—In an arrangement that will bring a number of children's book properties into development, Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Group (USA)...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 30 - April 6, 2006 Edition Scholastic Closes Troll, Trumpet Clubs Lays Off Personnel NEW YORK, NY/3/24/2006--Scholastic, Inc. yesterday stepped up staff layoffs as a result of disappointing sales for the third quarter ended February 28....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 30 - April 6, 2006 Edition WSJ Considers Book Summary Service Via E-mail NEW YORK, NY/3/27/06—According to an item in Publishers Marketplace March 27, the Wall Street Journal is considering a service to provide a paid subscription service to...

Simon & Schuster To Release Book By Terrell Owens IRVING/TX/3/21/06—New Dallas Cowboys receiver Terrell Owens has sold a book about his controversial two seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles to Simon & Schuster for publication in July 2006. The book, tentatively...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 23-30, 2006 Edition Bertelsmann, RH Grow Revenues, Profits In Fiscal Year 2005 BERLIN/3/22/06—Bertelsmann, the international media company which owns Random House, increased its revenues and further improved its profitability in 2005. Several...