MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition Viacom to Buy Burgeoning Kids Web Site, NeopetsNEW YORK, NY/06/21/05—Viacom will acquire closely-held children’s website Neopets for an estimated $160 million. The rapidly-growing site has about 25 million members and will...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition ALA Study Measures Federal Interest In Library RecordsWASHINGTON, DC/06/20/05—The American Library Association (ALA) today released the findings of a comprehensive survey demonstrating the significant impact on the public of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition Kathy Schneider Named Vice President Of Harper Imprint New York, NY /06/21/05—Kathy Schneider has been named Vice President, Associate Publisher of the Harper imprint of the General Books Group of HarperCollins Publishers....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition Streitfeld Named Senior Editor At Ballantine NEW YORK, NY/06/17/05—Anika Streitfeld, former fiction editor at mid-sized publisher MacAdam/Cage Publishing, has been named a senior editor at Ballantine, an imprint of Random...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition Barnes & Noble Pre-Orders For New Harry Potter Book Surpass 750,000 NEW YORK, NY/06/21/05—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) has announced that pre-orders for the new J. K. Rowling book, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2005 Edition Simon & Schuster Signs Book Deal On Michael JacksonNEW YORK, NY/06/22/05—Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has acquired worldwide English-language rights to a yet untitled book by journalist Diane Dimond about...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 15-31, 2005 Edition Spring Book Sales Surge in Ten Categories New York, NY/06/06/2005—Net domestic book sales for May surged in ten categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Adult and children’s hardcover and...

Publishing News People July 15-31, 2005 Edition PEOPLE Novelist Evan Hunter, AKA Ed McBain Dies at Age 78 LOS ANGELES/07/08/05—Author Evan Hunter, who wrote under the name Ed McBain, died at his home in Weston, Connecticut on July 6 at the age of 78. He died of cancer...

Publishing News General News July 15-31, 2005 Edition GENERAL NEWS Ads Have No Effect On E-News Credibility Mu Study Finds COLUMBIA, MO/07/05/05—The relationships between media outlets and their advertisers have been singled out as a possible reason for the public's...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 15-31, 2005 Edition Random to Publish Shakespeare’s Complete Works New York, NY/07/11/05—The Modern Library imprint of Random House has joined forces with the Royal Shakespeare Company to publish, in Fall 2006, a new complete landmark edition...