MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 15-31, 2005 Edition HarperCollins To Take Control of Its Digital Books Away From Search Companies NEW YORK, NY/12/13/05—News Corp’s HarperCollins has announced a move designed to prevent big Internet companies from taking control of books...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 15-31, 2005 Edition Random House To Distribute Japan’s Vertical Book Titles NEW YORK, NY/12/10/05—Vertical Inc., which translates contemporary Japanese books into English, has formally announced that Random House Distribution will now...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 15-31, 2005 Edition Whitebread Book Prize No longer Backed By Retail Group LONDON/12/13/05—The European retail group Whitbread is pulling out of its annual sponsorship of the Whitebread awards, which have been second only to the Booker...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 15-31, 2005 Edition Maryland School Official Reconsiders Ban on Teen Book BALTIMORE, MD/12/9/05—Amid a flurry of protests of censorship from across the country, Carroll County's school superintendent said yesterday that he is struggling...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 15-31, 2005 Edition Penguin to Podcast Dickens’s Christmas Carol for Free NEW YORK, NY/12/12/2005—The Penguin Podcast celebrates its first Christmas by offering an early present to its listeners—free downloads of the classic Yuletide tale,...

Publishing News Book Deals December 15-31, 2005 Edition BOOK DEALS Carroll & Graf To Reissue Purdy Classics NEW YORK, NY/12/13/05—Cult author James Purdy, author of underground classics such as In a Shallow Grave and Eustace Chisholm and the Works, has signed a deal...

Publishing News General News November 15-30, 2005 Edition GENERAL NEWS Latest Junie B. Kids’ Book Climbs To Top Five Bestsellers NEW YORK, NY/11/25/05—The latest book in the Junie B. series has climbed to the top five children’s bestsellers this week. Junie B., First...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 1-15, 2005 Edition Barnes & Noble Reports Flat Sales For Third Quarter NEW YORK, NY/11/27/05—Barnes & Noble today reported earnings of $327,000 for the three months ended Oct. 29, placing the nation’s leading bookseller at a break-even...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 1-15, 2005 Edition AAP Says Extension Of Patriot Act Fails To Protect Reader Privacy Washington, DC/11/15/05—The Association of American Publishers (AAP) expressed grave disappointment in the USA PATRIOT Act legislation that emerged from a...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 1-15, 2005 Edition Doubleday’s New Division Aimed At Bestsellers New York, NY/11/21/05—Doubleday/Broadway Books, a unit of Random House, will form yet another division to focus on a mix of literary fiction and quality nonfiction titles...