MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 1-15, 2004 Edition Conan Doyle Collection Sells for $1.7 millionLONDON/05/23/04A collection of letters, papers, and manuscripts by Arthur Conan Coyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, has been sold to a private collector for $1.7 million,...
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May 15 – 31, 2004 Book Deals
Publishing News Book Deals May 15-31, 2004 Edition BOOK DEALS Book, Movie Offers Flood Offices of Pat Tillman's Agents SAN JOSE, CA/05/03/04Book and movie proposals have been flooding the offices of sports agents Frank Bauer and Kenny Chapman, who represented the...
May 15 – 31, 2004
Publishing News General News May 15-31, 2004 Edition GENERAL NEWS Thomson Expands UK Film and Post Production With Madri Film Acqusition LOS ANGELES & PARIS/05/10/04Thomson (Euronext Paris:18453); (NYSE:TMS), the world leader in integrated solutions (technologies,...
Breaking News Random House Names Daniel Menaker Executive Editor-in-Chief
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Breaking News Random House Names Daniel Menaker Executive Editor-in-Chief NEW YORK, NY/05/25/2004Daniel Menaker, Senior Vice President of the Random House Publishing Group, has been appointed to the newly created position...
BISG Predicts Healthy Growth in Certain Segments of Publishing Industry
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition BISG Predicts Healthy Growth in Certain Segments of Publishing Industry NEW YORK, NY/05/12/2004Annual consumer expenditures for books will reach $44 billion by 2008, according to Book Industry TRENDS 2004. Trade,...
B&N.com Shows Healthy Gain For First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition B&N.com Shows Healthy Gain For First QuarterNEW YORK, NY/05/01/04Barnes & Noble.com sales increased 8.4 percent to $114.9 million for the first quarter of 2004, and the company reduced last year's losses of $13.1 million...
Harlequin Sales Slump Hurts Torstar Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Harlequin Sales Slump Hurts Torstar ProfitsTORONTO/05/05/04Torstar Corp. has posted a $2 million decline in profits for the quarter ending March 31 due to sluggish sales at Harlequin, the book publishing unit of newspaper...
HarperCollins Sales Jump 30 Percent in First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition HarperCollins Sales Jump 30 Percent In First QuarterNEW YORK, NY/05/06/04HarperCollins reported an incredible 30 percent increase in sales for the first quarter ending March 31. The company posted $321 million in sales, and...
Bertelsmann Posts Increased Earnings For First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Bertelsmann Posts Increased Earnings For First Quarter FRANKFURT/05/05/04Bertelsmann, the fourth largest media company in the world, posted earnings of 111 million euros ($134 million) for the first quarter of 2004,...
Alibris Plans Public Offering to Expand Products
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Alibris Plans Public Offering to Expand Products05/06/04Alibris, the online retailer that specializes in used books, will launch a public offering later this year to raise an estimated $30 million for company operations....
