MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 20004 Edition AAP Reports Publishers Recovering From Earlier Year Sales Losses NEW YORK, NY/2/2/04—Publishers have rung in the New Year with fewer losses and more gains in domestic, as well as elementary and high school...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition Penguin USA Poised to Fill a Growing New Market for Non-Fiction NEW YORK, NY/2/1/04—The Penguin Group, second largest English-language publisher in the world, seems to be in the midst of reinventing its US...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition Random House Forms Single Sales Force For Adult Imprints NEW YORK, NY/1/27/04—Random House has merged its adult sales groups into a single force which combines into one selling entity the imprints for Random House,...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition McGraw-Hill Sells Children's Division to School Specialty NEW YORK, NY/1/21/04—McGraw-Hill has agreed to sell its children's publishing division to School Specialty, Inc. in Wisconsin. The M-H division, with sales...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition November Bookstore Sales Down 2.9 percent WASHINGTON, D.C./1/14/04—The U.S. Census Bureau's preliminary bookstore sales report shows sales declined to $1.04 billion in November, a drop of 2.9 percent. Overall,...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition AMS Consolidates Distribution Operations in Face of Investigations SAN DIEGO, CA/1/14/2004—In the midst of ongoing investigations by the SEC and U.S. Attorney, Advanced Marketing Services, Inc. (NYSE:MKT - News)...
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 1-15, 2004 Edition Tony Lyons Leaves Lyons Press to Consider Own Publishing House NEW YORK, NY/1/16/04—Tony Lyons, publisher of Lyons Press, is leaving the company his father Neal Lyons founded three years after selling to Globe...
Publishing News People February 1-15, 2004 Edition PEOPLE Penguin Names Newman to New Publishing Post NEW YORK, NY/1/16/04—Megan Newman, formerly editorial director for HarperResource, has joined The Penguin Group in the newly-created role of publisher for the...
Publishing News Awards February 1-15, 2004 Edition AWARDS Book Critics Announce 2004 Shortlist NEW YORK, NY/1/21/04—The National Book Critics Circle has announced its shortlist for the 2004 NBCC awards, which will be presented on March 4. The fiction shortlist...
Publishing News Book Deals February 1-15, 2004 Edition BOOK DEALS Author Cussler Charges Producer With Altering Approved Screenplay LOS ANGELES, CA/1/17/04—Author Clive Cussler has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Crusader Entertainment,...
