MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Frankfurt Book Fair to Emphasize Film/TV ProducersFRANKFURT/06/22/04The 2004 Frankfurt Book Fair will cater for the first time to a group of international film producers. The world's largest book fair, to be held October...
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Publishers Warming to E-Mail Queries WSJ Article Says
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Publishers Warming to E-Mail Queries WSJ Article Says NEW YORK, NY/6/21/04A wire story in the Wall Street Journal points out that the Internet has provided a new gate of entry for the reams of queries and pitches that...
John Wiley Reports Strong Fourth Quarter, Record Fiscal Results
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition John Wiley Reports Strong Fourth Quarter, Record Fiscal ResultsHOBOKEN, NJ/06/15/04John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), has announced record results for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004. Earnings per diluted...
Harvard to Publish Business Titles With Chinese Press
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Harvard to Publish Business Titles With Chinese Press BOSTON, MA/06/21/04Harvard Business School Press has signed a three-year exclusive contract with The Commercial Press in Beijing, China to publish Harvard Business...
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Publishing News General News July 1-15, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Dow Jones Newswires To Acquire Oster Dow Jones NEW YORK/06/28/04Dow Jones Newswires, a division of Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), today announced that it will become the owner of 100% of Oster Dow...
July 1-15, 2004 Awards
Publishing News Awards July 1-15, 2004 Edition AWARDS Foreign Prizes Awarded for Best Aussie, Irish Novels NEW YORK, NY/06/24/04Australian and Irish novelists were honored this month with two separate literary citations. Shirley Hazzard won Australia's most...
ABA Membership Continues Decline Latest Report Shows
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition ABA Membership Continues Decline Latest Report Shows NEW YORK, NY/06/07/04The American Booksellers Association's bookstore memberships continue to decline. According to the latest ABA report, bookstore memberships fell to...
Two Stalwart Literary Agencies Up for Sale?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition Two Stalwart Literary Agencies Up for Sale? NEW YORK, NY/06/06/04IMG Literary, with offices in London and New York, has hired Rothschild North America to advise on various strategic options, including a sale of the agency,...
Consumer Book Sales Up Six Percent in 2003
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition Consumer Book Sales Up Six Percent In 2003Chicago, IL/06/04/04Driven by astonishing gains in Religious texts, Childrens and Young Adult Hardcover, Audio books, and E-books, overall sales in the Consumer publishing sector...
Crichton to Head New Nonfiction Line at FSG
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition Crichton to Head New Nonfiction Line at FSG NEW YORK, NY/06/11/2004Farrar, Straus & Giroux will launch a new imprint in late 2005 named after its new editor Sarah Crichton. Sarah Crichton Books will focus on serious...
