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,...
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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....
Librarians, Authors, Publishers to Discuss U.S. Library Challenges
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Librarians, Authors, Publishers to Discuss U.S. Library Challenges CHICAGO/05/10/04More than 20,000 librarians, educators, writers, publishers and special guests are expected to attend the American Library Association (ALA)...
Indies Market Share Increases to 16 Percent
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 15-31, 2004 Edition Indies Market Share Increases to 16 Percent NEW YORK, NY/05/7/04Independent bookstores increased their share of the market to 16 percent in 2003a five year high, according to a report by Ipsos BookTrends. Ipsos BookTrends...
