MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition AAP Seeks Meeting With Senate Committee to Alter Public Access Bill NEW YORK, NY/08/24/04—The Association of American Publishers has requested a meeting with members of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on Labor...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Barnes & Noble Reports Slight Sales Increase For Second Quarter New York, NY/08/19/04—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) has reported a 5 % increase in sales for the second quarter ended July 31, 2004, over the previous...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition BAM Sales Up Slightly, Profits Rise SignificantlyNEW YORK, NY/08/19/04—Books-A-Million ended its second quarter with a better-than-expected increase of 0.9 percent to $114.1 million. But net income declined from $1.4...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Perseus Books Predicts 9 Percent Sales Growth in '05NEW YORK, NY/08/21/04—The Perseus Books Group is projecting a nine percent sales increase for the current year, according to an employee memo by CEO David Steinberger,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Quarto Reports Healthy Increase in Book ProfitsLONDON/08/21/04—London-based Quarto Group Plc has reported a 23-percent increase in profits for the first half of the year, and predicts strong growth to continue over the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Jake Morrissey Named Executive Editor of Riverhead BooksNew York, NY/08/19/04—Julie Grau and Celina Spiegel, Vice Presidents and Publishers, Riverhead Books, today announced that Jake Morrissey has been appointed the...

Publishing News General News August 15-31, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Former S&S Audio Head Opens Own Publishing Company NEW YORK, NY/08/03/04—Gilles Dana, former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has formed the new publishing company Gildan Media. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Breaking News Harlequin Editorial, Management Staff Gets Major Redesign NEW YORK, NY/08/16/2004—Harlequin, in a move to further strengthen its focus on series and single title book publishing, has shuffled key publishing...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition McGraw-Hill Reduces Three Division to Two NEW YORK, NY/08/10/04—McGraw-Hill Companies has whittled three professional book group divisions own to two to become more customer focused in a slumping market. The old structure...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Lagardère Média Poised to Enter U.S. Market?LONDON/08/06/204—Lagardère Média, which has just purchased UK publisher Hodder Headline for £223m from WH Smith, Plc., may be gearing up to enter the U.S. market. The huge sale...