Barnes & Noble To Open Big Store in West Maui LAHAINA, HAWAII/2/14/06Barnes & Noble will open the largest bookstore in Hawaii when the new Lahaina Gateway store opens in spring 2007. The worlds largest bookseller is the first to sign a lease in the huge Lahaina...
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Small Chicago Publisher Gives New Writers a Chance
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 16-23, 2006 Edition Small Chicago Publisher Gives New Writers a Chance Chicago, IL/2/16/06Lake 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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Publisher Wiley Acquires Minority Shares in India?s Dreamtech
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Publisher Wiley Acquires Minority Shares in Indias Dreamtech HOBOKEN, NJ/2/3/06John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa) (NYSE: JWb), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the outstanding shares of Wiley...
Harpercollins Publishes Entire Book on the Web
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 9-16, 2006 Edition Harpercollins Publishes Entire Book on the Web New York, NY/02/06/06HarperCollins 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...
February 9-16, 2006
Riverhead Books Acquires Debut Novel by Sylvia Sellers-Garcia NEW YORK, NY/2/7/06Geoffrey 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...
