MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1-15, 2005 Edition Bowker Report Shows More Titles Published But Fewer Books SoldNEW YORK, NY/5/25/05R.R. Bowker reported this week that the number of published books increased a whopping 14% to 195,000 titles in 2004. Included in that number...
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June 1-15, 2005 Book Selling
Publishing News Bookselling June 1-15, 2005 Edition BOOKSELLING Barnes & Noble Opens New Store in Fort Worth, TX NEW YORK, NY/06/01/05Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, opened a new bookstore on June 1 at 4801 Overton Ridge Boulevard,...
June 1-15, 2005
Publishing News General News June 1-15, 2005 Edition GENERAL NEWS Pearson, Audible Team Up to Offer Learning Products NEW YORK, NY/05/17/05Pearson Higher Education, part of Pearson plc (LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), and Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL) have announced a...
Book Industry Report Sees Healthy Increase in Sales Over 5 Years
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1-15, 2005 Edition Book Industry Report Sees Healthy Increase in Sales Over 5 YearsNew York, NY/05/17/05Total book industry revenues will increase 18.3 % over the next five years, according to a new report, Book Industry TRENDS 2005,...
June 1-15, 2005 General News
Publishing News General News June 1-15, 2005 Edition GENERAL NEWS Pearson, Audible Team Up to Offer Learning Products NEW YORK, NY/05/17/05Pearson Higher Education, part of Pearson plc (LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), and Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL) have announced a...
June 1-15, 2005 People
Publishing News People June 1-15, 2005 Edition PEOPLE Lockhart to Head Zondervan at HarperCollins NEW YORK, NY/05/27/05Doug Lockhart has been named president of HarperCollins' religious imprint, Zondervan. He succeeds Bruce Ryskamp, who continues as CEO. Lockhart has...
University Presses Voice Concerns Over Google Library Program
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1-15, 2005 Edition University Presses Voice Concerns Over Google Library Program New York, NY/05/31/05Google's plan to digitize the book collections of major research libraries at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and others, has...
May 15-31, 2005
Publishing News Book Deals May 15-31, 2005 Edition BOOK DEALS Pearlsong Press to Publish Ballard's Romantic Suspense Nashville, TN/05/10/05Pearlsong Press will publish Abigail's Revenge, a romantic suspense novel by Pat Ballard, in fall 2005. "We're excited to add...
May 15-31, 2005 Book Selling
Publishing News Bookselling May 15-31, 2005 Edition BOOKSELLING Barnes & Noble to Open New Store in Newburgh, NY NEW YORK, NY/05/04/05Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore on May 18 at 1245 Route 300 (Union...
May 15-31, 2005 Awards
Publishing News Awards May 15-31, 2005 Edition AWARDS Scholastic Reveals Winners of Kids' Writing Contest NEW YORK, NY/05/10/05Scholastic, the global publishing, education and media company, has announced the winners of the Scholastic Book Fairs Kids Are Authors(R)...
