MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Barnes & Noble Reports Slight Sales Increase For Second Quarter New York, NY/08/19/04Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) has reported a 5 % increase in sales for the second quarter ended July 31, 2004, over the previous...
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BAM Sales Up Slightly, Profits Rise Significantly
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition BAM Sales Up Slightly, Profits Rise SignificantlyNEW YORK, NY/08/19/04Books-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...
Perseus Books Predicts 9 Percent Sales Growth in ’05
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Perseus Books Predicts 9 Percent Sales Growth in '05NEW YORK, NY/08/21/04The Perseus Books Group is projecting a nine percent sales increase for the current year, according to an employee memo by CEO David Steinberger,...
Quarto Reports Healthy Increase in Book Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Quarto Reports Healthy Increase in Book ProfitsLONDON/08/21/04London-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...
Jake Morrissey Named Executive Editor of Riverhead Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 1-15, 2004 Edition Jake Morrissey Named Executive Editor of Riverhead BooksNew York, NY/08/19/04Julie Grau and Celina Spiegel, Vice Presidents and Publishers, Riverhead Books, today announced that Jake Morrissey has been appointed the...
August 15-31, 2004
Publishing News General News August 15-31, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Former S&S Audio Head Opens Own Publishing Company NEW YORK, NY/08/03/04Gilles Dana, former president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has formed the new publishing company Gildan Media. The...
Breaking News Harlequin Editorial, Management Staff Gets Major Redesign
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Breaking News Harlequin Editorial, Management Staff Gets Major Redesign NEW YORK, NY/08/16/2004Harlequin, in a move to further strengthen its focus on series and single title book publishing, has shuffled key publishing...
McGraw-Hill Reduces Three Division to Two
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition McGraw-Hill Reduces Three Division to Two NEW YORK, NY/08/10/04McGraw-Hill Companies has whittled three professional book group divisions own to two to become more customer focused in a slumping market. The old structure...
Lagard?re M?dia Poised to Enter U.S. Market?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Lagardère Média Poised to Enter U.S. Market?LONDON/08/06/204Lagardère 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...
Book Rebinder’s Practice May Be Illegal Claims PMA, Small Publishers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Book Rebinder's Practice May Be Illegal Claims PMA, Small PublishersNEW YORK, NY/08/09/04Minnesota-based Sagebrush Corporation, which specializes in rebinding original paperback books for libraries, has begun putting its...
