MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Andrews McMeel, Simon and Schuster Team Up in UK Market Kansas City/3/6/06Andrews McMeel Publishing LLC will expand its distribution deal with Simon and Schuster to enter the United Kingdom and Irish markets, according to...
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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/3/4/06Nigel 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/3/7/06John 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. Doctorows The March Wins Book Critics Award NEW YORK, NY/3/3/06 The March, E.L. Doctorows 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/3/4/06Judith 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,...
Book Publishing Industry ?05 Net Sales Total $25.1 Billion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 9-16, 2006 Edition Book Publishing Industry 05 Net Sales Total $25.1 Billion New York, NY/3/6/06Net 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...
S&S Reports Sales Gains For 2005
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition S&S Reports Sales Gains For 2005 NEW YORK, NY/2/23/2006Simon & 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...
Hachette Livre Forms Int?l Board, Including New Time Warner Unit
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition Hachette Livre Forms Intl Board, Including New Time Warner Unit NEW YORK, NY/2/28/2006The new owner of Time Warner Books, Hachette Livre, has formed an international board to direct the companys development. The...
PENGUIN GROUP ANNOUNCES 2005 RESULTS
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition PENGUIN GROUP ANNOUNCES 2005 RESULTS NEW YORK, NY/2/27/2006Penguin Group (including all companies around the world and DK) reported its operating results for the year ending December 31, 2005. Underlying operating...
New Study Shows Used Book Sales Top $2 Billion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 2 - March 9, 2006 Edition New Study Shows Used Book Sales Top $2 Billion NEW YORK, NY/2/27/2006Just 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...
