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March 23-30, 2006 Simon & Schuster

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...

March 16 – 23, 2006 News

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...

March 16 – 23, 2006

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...

Google Woos Publishers to Grant Pay-Per-View to Entire Books Online

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...

March 16-23, 2006

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 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...

Bloomsbury Chief Calls for Boycott On Google Search

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...

John Wiley Posts 8% Gain In Third Quarter

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...

March 9-16, 2006

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...

March 9-16, 2006 News

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,...