MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2005 Edition Educational Publisher Making Big Difference For Inner-City Kids NEW JERSEY/8/7/05—In an online article in the North Jersey News, staff writer Richard Newman profiles the founders of People’s Publishing Group, which...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2005 Edition Journalist Questions Whether Quill Awards Are Just a PR Ploy NEW YORK, NY/8/8/05—An article by Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun explores the ever-expanding universe of book awards and he questions whether the latest...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2005 Edition Writers Given Chance to Publish at Random House NEW ZEALAND/8/7/05—To celebrate two decades of New Zealand’s Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition, this year's winning Open Division story will be published next year...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2005 Edition Library of Congress National Book Festival to Celebrate Creativity WASHINGTON, DC/8/9/05—The 2005 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by first lady Laura Bush, will be...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2005 Edition Bestselling Author Dan Brown Wins Court Case NEW YORK, NY/8/7/05—New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown has won a court case brought by another writer, claiming that Brown copied elements from two of his books...

Publishing News General News August 1-15, 2005 Edition GENERAL NEWS Heavyweight Authors Share Insights on Identity In Summer Radio Series Read More on exploring typecast writers in the LA Times Santa Monica, CA/07/27/05—Toni Morrison, Tom Wolfe, Susan Sontag, and...

Publishing News Book Deals July 1-15, 2005 Edition BOOK DEALS Hyperion to Publish Book by Halberstam On Winning NFL Coach NEW YORK, NY/06/22/05—Hyperion announced today plans to publish a new book by David Halberstam. The book, tentatively entitled THE EDUCATION OF A...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition AAP Asks Google to Halt Book Scanning Until It Reviews Legal Issues NEW YORK, NY/06/21/05—The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has asked Google to stop scanning copyrighted books published by the association's...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2005 Edition Book Sales Warm in June Says AAP New York, NY/08/03/2005—June brought publishing sales gains for eight categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Adult hardcover and the adult mass market...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2005 Edition Penguin Targets New Readership With Short Paperbacks NEW YORK, NY/07/29/2005—In an effort to attract new readers, Penguin Group USA’s Mass Market Paperbacks division plans to introduce a series of...