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,...

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...

Pinter Leaves Warner for Three Rivers/Random House NEW YORK, NY/2/28/2006—Jason Pinter has left his job as an editor at Warner Books, to join Three Rivers Press, effective March 1. Three Rivers Press is the trade paperback imprint of the Crown Publishing Group....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition S&S Reports Sales Gains For 2005 NEW YORK, NY/2/23/2006—Simon & Schuster, the publishing arm of the CBS Corporation, reported a year-end 2005 sales increase of 2% to about $770 million. The publisher also reported a...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition Hachette Livre Forms Int’l Board, Including New Time Warner Unit NEW YORK, NY/2/28/2006—The new owner of Time Warner Books, Hachette Livre, has formed an international board to direct the company’s development. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition PENGUIN GROUP ANNOUNCES 2005 RESULTS NEW YORK, NY/2/27/2006—Penguin Group (including all companies around the world and DK) reported its operating results for the year ending December 31, 2005. Underlying operating...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition New Study Shows Used Book Sales Top $2 Billion NEW YORK, NY/2/27/2006—Just off the press, Used-Book Sales: A Study of the Behavior, Structure, Size and Growth of the U.S. Used-Book Market, estimates that revenues...