MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Penguin Collaborates With Digital Manga On YA/Adult Comics NEW YORK, NY/08/03/04Penguin has signed a three-year agreement with California-based digital comics publisher, Digital Manga, Inc. to publish a series of young...
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Study Shows Minneapolis Among Most Literate Cities
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 15-31, 2004 Edition Study Shows Minneapolis Among Most Literate CitiesWhitewater, WI/08/03/04A new study on America's most literate cities, conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, concludes that Minneapolis ranks highest for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
August 1-15, 2004 General News
Publishing News General News August 1-15, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Gannett to Acquire 23 Newspapers, Specialty Publications Green Bay, WI/07/24/04Gannett Co., which publishes USA Today and The Indianapolis Star, has agreed to buy 23 newspapers and 11 specialty...
FSG to Distribute Drawn & Quarterly Literary Comics
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition FSG to Distribute Drawn & Quarterly Literary ComicsNEW YORK, NY/07/23/04Farrar Strauss & Giroux has agreed to handle U.S. distribution of graphic novels for Dawn & Quarterly in Montreal. The deal teams the esteemed...
New Newsday Publisher Reassures Employees Amid Circulation Scandal
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 1-15, 2004 Edition New Newsday Publisher Reassures Employees Amid Circulation Scandal NEW YORK, NY/07/21/04Newsday's new publisher, Timothy P.Knight, has vowed to create an atmosphere of "transparency, openness and honesty in the way we run...
