MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Paris Court Rejects Lance Armstrong's Defamation Case PARIS/06/21/04—A Paris court has Monday rejected Lance Armstrong's request that a book suggesting he had taken performance-enhancing drugs include a denial by the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Frankfurt Book Fair to Emphasize Film/TV ProducersFRANKFURT/06/22/04—The 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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Publishers Warming to E-Mail Queries WSJ Article Says NEW YORK, NY/6/21/04—A 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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition John Wiley Reports Strong Fourth Quarter, Record Fiscal ResultsHOBOKEN, NJ/06/15/04—John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), has announced record results for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2004. Earnings per diluted...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 1-15, 2004 Edition Harvard to Publish Business Titles With Chinese Press BOSTON, MA/06/21/04—Harvard Business School Press has signed a three-year exclusive contract with The Commercial Press in Beijing, China to publish Harvard Business...

Publishing News General News July 1-15, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Dow Jones Newswires To Acquire Oster Dow Jones NEW YORK/06/28/04—Dow Jones Newswires, a division of Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ), today announced that it will become the owner of 100% of Oster Dow...

Publishing News Awards July 1-15, 2004 Edition AWARDS Foreign Prizes Awarded for Best Aussie, Irish Novels NEW YORK, NY/06/24/04—Australian and Irish novelists were honored this month with two separate literary citations. Shirley Hazzard won Australia's most...

Publishing News People June 15-30, 2004 Edition PEOPLE Berger Named Scholastic VP NEW YORK, NY/06/07/04—Ellie Berger, Scholastic’s publisher of licensed products and deputy publisher, now has the added role of senior vice president, assuming a post previously held by...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition U.S. Book Production Soars to 175,000 New Titles,Trade Up, University Presses Down New Providence, NJ/05/27/04—R.R. Bowker, the leading provider of bibliographic information in North America, today released statistics on...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 15-30, 2004 Edition Barnes & Noble Finalizes Acquisition of B&N.com NEW YORK, NY/06/03/04—Barnes & Noble.com shareholders called a special meeting June 3 to ratify the sale of the e-tailer to Barnes & Noble—the last step in a long acquisition...