MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition Penguin Group Reports 2004 First Half ResultsNew York, NY/07/26/04—The Penguin Group, part of Pearson (FTSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), the international media company, today reported its operating results for the first half of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition S&S Shows 13 Percent Gain in Adult HardcoverNEW YORK, NY/07/22/04—Simon & Schuster this month showed an overall gain in sales of 10 percent for the first six months of 2004, including a 13 percent boost in adult hardcover...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition Random House, Ballantine Divisions Strengthen Publicity Departments, Integrate Efforts NEW YORK, NY/07/16/04—Random House, Inc. has made several key moves to strengthen the publicity teams for Random House Adult Trade...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition Lerner Publishing Acquires Millbrook Children's Imprints MINNEAPOLIS, MN/07/21/04—Lerner Publishing Group has acquired the Millbrook and Twenty-First Century imprints from Millbrook Press, as part of a court-ordered...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition New Newsday Publisher Reassures Employees Amid Circulation Scandal NEW YORK, NY/07/21/04—Newsday's new publisher, Timothy P.Knight, has vowed to create an atmosphere of "transparency, openness and honesty in the way we run...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition FSG to Distribute Drawn & Quarterly Literary ComicsNEW YORK, NY/07/23/04—Farrar Strauss & Giroux has agreed to handle U.S. distribution of graphic novels for Dawn & Quarterly in Montreal. The deal teams the esteemed...

Publishing News General News August 1-15, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Gannett to Acquire 23 Newspapers, Specialty Publications Green Bay, WI/07/24/04—Gannett Co., which publishes USA Today and The Indianapolis Star, has agreed to buy 23 newspapers and 11 specialty...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 15-31, 2004 Edition Breaking News Harlequin Nixes Three Lines in U.S., Beefs Up Others NEW YORK, NY/07/14/2004—In a sweeping move to “change with the times” and respond to their readers, Harlequin will discontinue the distribution of three...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 15-31, 2004 Edition Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, Says NEA ReportNEW YORK, NY/07/08/04—Literary reading is in dramatic decline with fewer than half of American adults now reading literature, according to a National Endowment for the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 15-31, 2004 Edition Publishers Share NEA Concern About Reading CrisisWashington, DC/07/09/04—A new report issued by the National Endowment for the Arts showing a startling decline in book readership is a matter of deep concern for publishers...