Publishing News Awards November 15-30, 2005 Edition AWARDS USA Book News Best Book Award Goes to Koven LOS ANGELES, CA/11/03/05—Jean-Claude Koven, author of Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense (Prism House Press), has been...

Publishing News People in Publishing November 15-30, 2005 Edition PEOPLE IN PUBLISHING Jackson Joins Crown as Executive Editor NEW YORK, NY/11/7/05—Heather Jackson has been named executive editor at Crown/Random House, after a stint at Rodale. Disney Names Bubbosh...

Publishing News Awards November 15-30, 2005 Edition AWARDS USA Book News Best Book Award Goes to Koven LOS ANGELES, CA/11/03/05—Jean-Claude Koven, author of Going Deeper: How to Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life Makes No Sense (Prism House Press), has been...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2005 Edition Barnes & Noble, Borders Experience Third Quarter Losses NEW YORK, NY/10/18/2005—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, has confirmed that it will post a net loss of a penny to 4 cents per share...

Publishing News Awards November 1-15, 2005 Edition AWARDS Oregon Book Awards Names Bob Welch Among Four Finalist EUGENE, OR/10/24/05—Bob Welch's book, "American Nightingale" (Atria Books, 2004) is among four finalists for the Oregon Book Award's general fiction...

Publishing News People November 1-15, 2005 Edition PEOPLE Spiers Leaves Mediabistro to Finish Book NEW YORK, NY/10/22/05—Elizabeth Spiers is leaving Mediabistro to work as a freelance journalist and complete her novel, And They All Die in the End. The work has been...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2005 Edition Publishers Support U.S. Copyright Enforcement in China Washington, DC/10/26/05—The Association of American Publishers (AAP) joined with other members of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) in...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2005 Edition American Publishers Join Growing Legal Opposition to Google NEW YORK, NY/10/21/05—The Association of American Publishers has filed a lawsuit October 20 in Manhattan U.S. District Court against Google, in an effort to bar...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2005 Edition Snicket, Potter Publishers Find New Ways to Reach Children Online NEW YORK, NY/10/18/05—Several publishers have recently mounted innovative online marketing campaigns to help capture the children’s market, according to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2005 Edition Plagiarism Lawsuit Threatens to Bar Sales of Da Vinci Code LONDON/10/31/05—A preliminary High Court hearing was scheduled in London October 26, pitting Random House Group and Dan Brown, author of the wildly popular The...