MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Declines Bid For Digital Retailer LONDON/2/19/06According to an article in the Business Telegraph, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest chain of book stores, has declined to bid on the acquisition...
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Penguin Australia Cuts Author Royalties In Line With UK and US
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Penguin Australia Cuts Author Royalties In Line With UK and US AUSTRALIA/2/17/06The Australian division of Penguin Group (Australia), owned by Pearson Plc., has announced it will cutback royalty rates paid to...
Harcourt Seeks Buyer for School Library Division
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Harcourt Seeks Buyer for School Library Division NEW YORK, NY/2/17/06Harcourt Education is seeking a buyer for its its global elementary library operations. Up for sale are the Heinemann, Raintree and...
Book Picks on UK?s Richard & Judy TV Show Snapped up by BBC
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition Book Picks on UKs Richard & Judy TV Show Snapped up by BBC LONDON/2/22/06BBC Audiobooks has acquired the audio rights to four book titles picked for appearances on the Richard & Judy Book Club show. The BBC...
MTV, Pocket To Beef Up Books For Teen Girls
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 23 - March 2, 2006 Edition MTV, Pocket To Beef Up Books For Teen Girls New York, NY/2/17/06Teen fiction is hot! And MTV Books, in conjunction with Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster, is giving young readers what they want with a special...
S&S to Produce Audiobook Collection Of Hemingway?s Work
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Breaking News S&S to Produce Audiobook Collection Of Hemingways Work NEW YORK, NY/2/15/06Simon & Schuster Audio announced today an agreement with the Ernest Hemingway estate to publish in audiobook format the renowned...
Focus/Random House Pick First Two Film Projects for New Venture
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Focus/Random House Pick First Two Film Projects for New Venture NEW YORK, NY/2/14/06A novel set in contemporary Tel Aviv and a work of nonfiction by a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist have been selected...
Six Publishers Again Sue Florida Copy Shop Owner
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Six Publishers Again Sue Florida Copy Shop Owner GAINESVILLE, FL/2/9/06Accusing a Gainesville copy shop owner with repeat illegal behavior he had already pledged to stop, six publishers have filed a lawsuit against...
Canadian Reader Seeks Class-Action Suit Against James Frey
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Canadian Reader Seeks Class-Action Suit Against James Frey QUEBEC, CANADA/2/9/06U.S. author James Frey is under fire once again for his embellished memoirs of drug-addicted exploits, according to an item on CTV.ca,...
AAP Reviews Global Intellectual Property Protection
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition AAP Reviews Global Intellectual Property Protection Washington, DC/2/13/06The Association of American Publishers (AAP), jointly with six other copyright-related trade associations, has submitted its annual Special 301...
