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...

Barnes & Noble To Open Big Store in West Maui LAHAINA, HAWAII/2/14/06—Barnes & Noble will open the largest bookstore in Hawaii when the new Lahaina Gateway store opens in spring 2007. The world’s largest bookseller is the first to sign a lease in the huge Lahaina...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Breaking News HarperCollins Reports Record-Breaking Book Profits for Q2, 2006 NEW YORK, NY/2/9/2006—HarperCollins February 8 reported record second-quarter operating income for fiscal 2006 of $77 million, a 24% increase...

Riverhead Books Acquires Debut Novel by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia NEW YORK, NY/2/7/06—Geoffrey Kloske, Vice President and Publisher of Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), has announced the acquisition of The Open Ground, an extraordinarily compelling debut...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Harpercollins Publishes Entire Book on the Web New York, NY/02/06/06—HarperCollins Publishers announced that, for the first time, it is making the full text of a business book available on the web for free, on an ad...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Publisher Wiley Acquires Minority Shares in India’s Dreamtech HOBOKEN, NJ/2/3/06—John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa) (NYSE: JWb), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the outstanding shares of Wiley...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Rayo-HarperCollins Launches Website for Asesi’s Thriller Rayo/HarperCollins Announces Launch of Website for Highly Anticipated Thriller about the Search for the Secret Location of the Original Cross Used to Crucify...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Publishers Turn Up Heat on Erotic Romance Imprints TORONTO/NEW YORK/2/6/06—Harlequin Books, Kensington, and Avon, leading publishers of romantic fiction, are all in the process of launching new erotica imprints,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 6, 2006 Edition Breaking News Lagardère to Acquire Time Warner Book Group PARIS and NEW YORK/2/6/2006—Lagardère SCA and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) today announced that Lagardère will acquire Time Warner Book Group, the fifth largest U.S....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 2-9, 2006 Edition December Sees Steady Rise in Book Sales NEW YORK, NY/01/31/06—Publishing sales continued to rise in December for most of the categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Children’s/YA Paperback saw...