MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 23-30, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Reports 5 Percent Hike in 2005 Sales NEW YORK, NY/3/17/06—Barnes & Noble increased sales “by every single important financial metric” in 2005, according to CEO Steve Riggio, in reporting fourth quarter and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 23-30, 2006 Edition Da Vinci Code Arguments End, Ruling Due in April LONDON/3/21/06—Arguments have ended in the case to decide whether Dan Brown plagiarized another work in writing his bestselling The DA Vinci Code, according to an item on...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 23-30, 2006 Edition VeriSign Acquires m-Qube to Help Deliver Mobile Content MOUNTAIN VIEW/CA/3/20/06—VeriSign, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSN - News), the leading provider of intelligent infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications...

2006 Spur Awards Honor Best Westerns PHOENIX/AZ/3/18/06—California writer Willard Wyman won two Spur Awards for his first novel while Loren Estleman collected his fifth from Western Writers of America. Winners in 15 categories were announced March 18 by WWA President...

Erotic Romance Becoming Next Big Thing in Women’s Fiction Erotic romance—the next big thing in women's fiction— has turned mainstream romance novels up a notch from hot to even hotter, according to an article in the Mercury News by Nerissa Pacio. With book covers...

Will the New Amazon Shorts Change the Nature of Publishing? Will the new Amazon Shorts feature change the nature of publishing? Francis Hamit thinks so. Hamit, a journalist who began experimenting with electronic publishing and distribution of his previously published...

Atria Books to Publish Abrams' The Lost Diary of Don Juan NEW YORK, NY/03/13/06—Atria Books has purchased North American rights to two novels by author Douglas Carlton Abrams, Judith Curr, executive vice-president and publisher announced today. Vice-President and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 16-23, 2006 Edition Google Woos Publishers to Grant Pay-Per-View to Entire Books Online NEW YORK, NY/3/14/06—In an apparent effort to placate publishers who are suing the company for copyright infringement-search giant Google is now courting...

Tesco’s Powerful Book Buyer Moves To HarperCollins LONDON/03/10/06—Caroline Ridding, the powerful book buyer for Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, has joined HarperCollins, effective May 1. A replacement at Tesco has not yet been named. Her title at Harpercollins will...

Tesco’s Powerful Book Buyer Moves To HarperCollins LONDON/03/10/06—Caroline Ridding, the powerful book buyer for Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, has joined HarperCollins, effective May 1. A replacement at Tesco has not yet been named. Her title at Harpercollins will...