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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Book Publishing Industry ‘05 Net Sales Total $25.1 Billion New York, NY/3/6/06—Net sales for the United States publishing industry are estimated to have increased by 9.9 percent from 2004 to 2005 to a grand total of $25.1...

Atria Books Acquires Golf and Business Memoir By Sportsman Norman New York, NY/3/4/06—Judith Curr, Executive Vice President and Publisher, announced Marchy 3 that Atria Books will publish a golf and business memoir by legendary sportsman and entrepreneur Greg Norman,...

E.L. Doctorow’s The March Wins Book Critics Award NEW YORK, NY/3/3/06— The March, E.L. Doctorow’s acclaimed tale of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's ruthless Civil War battles, won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction March 3 at an awards banquet. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition John Wiley Posts 8% Gain In Third Quarter Hoboken, NJ/3/7/06—John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) has announced that third quarter revenue of $278 million increased 8% from $258 million in the same period of the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Bloomsbury Chief Calls for Boycott On Google Search LONDON/3/4/06—Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., is openly calling for a boycott of Google, the search engine company, for what he calls a “land...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Andrews McMeel, Simon and Schuster Team Up in UK Market Kansas City/3/6/06—Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC will expand its distribution deal with Simon and Schuster to enter the United Kingdom and Irish markets, according to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Publishers to Honor Good Morning America Washington, DC/3/6/06—America’s publishing industry will pay formal tribute to ABC News’ Good Morning America for its outstanding work in promoting American books and authors, the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Veteran Publishing Exec Roger Cooper Named VP, CDS Books NEW YORK, NY/3/6/06—Roger Cooper today began his new role at Perseus Books Group as vice president, publisher of CDS Books, a division of Client Distribution Services...

Bestselling Author Jodi Picoult Signs Two-Book Deal with Atria NEW YORK, NY/3/3/26—Jodi Picoult, the international and New York Times best-selling author of My Sister's Keeper and Vanishing Acts, has signed a new deal with Atria Books for another two novels, it was...