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...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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...