Publishing News People December 1-15, 2004 Edition PEOPLE Marie Massie Joins Lippincott Mcquilkin As Agency Partner NEW YORK, NY/11/17/04Lippincott McQuilkin & Co. announced today that Maria Massie, previously of Witherspoon & Associates and Inkwell Management, will...
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HarperCollins Names Morrison to Head New HarperMorrow Division
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition HarperCollins Names Morrison to Head New HarperMorrow Division NEW YORK, NY/11/09/04HarperCollins Publishers has announced that Michael Morrison has been named President and Group Publisher of the newly created...
Publishing Sales Remain Buoyant in September
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition Publishing Sales Remain Buoyant in September New York, NY/11/09/04Publishing sales dropped slightly as summer wound down. Year to date sales were up in ten categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers...
Publishers To Honor USA Today
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition Publishers To Honor USA Today Washington, D.C./11/08/04Americas publishing industry will pay formal tribute to USA Today for the newspapers outstanding work in promoting American books and authors, the Association of...
Labor Department Upholds WGAw Election Results
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition Labor Department Upholds WGAw Election Results 11/03/04Dan Petrie Jr. will be seated as the new president of Writers Guild of America West (WGAw), following an election battle which was decided today by The Department...
2005 PEN/Beyond Margins Awards Seeks Entries From Publishers, Agents
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition 2005 PEN/Beyond Margins Awards Seeks Entries From Publishers, AgentsNEW YORK, NY/11/04/04PEN/Beyond Margins Awards invites submissions of booklength writings by authors of color, published in the United States during...
Ballantine and Random House Sign Four-Book Contract With Gail Godwin
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 15-30, 2004 Edition Ballantine and Random House Sign Four-Book Contract With Gail Godwin11/08/04Ballantine Books and Random House have acquired world rights to two novels and two nonfiction books on writing by bestselling author Gail...
November 1-15, 2004
Publishing News Book Deals November 1-15, 2004 Edition Book Deals Update PublicAffairs Decides Against Clarke Project NEW YORK, NY/10/25/04According to an article in Publishers Weekly, PublicAffairsa member of the Perseus Books Grouphas decided to back out of a...
Publishers, NEA Join Forces to Address National Reading Crisis
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2004 Edition Publishers, NEA Join Forces to Address National Reading Crisis Washington DC/10/25/04The Association of American Publishers today announced a new partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts to help raise...
Amazon.com Reports 29 Percent Sales Growth, Book Sales Up 12 Percent
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 1-15, 2004 Edition Amazon.com Reports 29 Percent Sales Growth, Book Sales Up 12 Percent SEATTLE, WA/10/21/04Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2004. Sales in Amazon.com's...
