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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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,...