MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Penguin Australia Cuts Author Royalties In Line With UK and US AUSTRALIA/2/17/06—The Australian division of Penguin Group (Australia), owned by Pearson Plc., has announced it will cutback royalty rates paid to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Harcourt Seeks Buyer for School Library Division NEW YORK, NY/2/17/06—Harcourt Education is seeking a buyer for its its global elementary library operations. Up for sale are the Heinemann, Raintree and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Book Picks on UK’s Richard & Judy TV Show Snapped up by BBC LONDON/2/22/06—BBC Audiobooks has acquired the audio rights to four book titles picked for appearances on the Richard & Judy Book Club show. The BBC...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition MTV, Pocket To Beef Up Books For Teen Girls New York, NY/2/17/06—Teen fiction is hot! And MTV Books, in conjunction with Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, is giving young readers what they want with a special...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Breaking News S&S to Produce Audiobook Collection Of Hemingway’s Work NEW YORK, NY/2/15/06—Simon & Schuster Audio announced today an agreement with the Ernest Hemingway estate to publish in audiobook format the renowned...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Focus/Random House Pick First Two Film Projects for New Venture NEW YORK, NY/2/14/06—A novel set in contemporary Tel Aviv and a work of nonfiction by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist have been selected...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Six Publishers Again Sue Florida Copy Shop Owner GAINESVILLE, FL/2/9/06—Accusing a Gainesville copy shop owner with repeat illegal behavior he had already pledged to stop, six publishers have filed a lawsuit against...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Canadian Reader Seeks Class-Action Suit Against James Frey QUEBEC, CANADA/2/9/06—U.S. author James Frey is under fire once again for his embellished memoirs of drug-addicted exploits, according to an item on CTV.ca,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition AAP Reviews Global Intellectual Property Protection Washington, DC/2/13/06—The Association of American Publishers (AAP), jointly with six other copyright-related trade associations, has submitted its annual Special 301...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Small Chicago Publisher Gives New Writers a Chance Chicago, IL/2/16/06—Lake Claremont Press, a tiny publisher based in the Chicago area, has recently grown to 21 titles with a steady sales record. An article by Thomas...