May 13, 2013-- Microsoft is planning to offer $1 billion to buy Barnes and Noble’s e-reader unit, according to several news reports. Microsoft already owns 17.6% of Nook Media and Penguin owns a 5% stake. If the acquisition is successful, Microsoft would...
New York, NY/May 14, 2013 --The Children’s Book Council and Every Child a Reader announced the winners of the sixth annual Children’s Choice Book Awards (CCBAs) at a charity gala benefitting Every Child a Reader in New York City last night. The...
HOLLYWOOD/May 09, 2013--The 2013 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the fall. The Southern California Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
NEW YORK (May 8, 2013) The 2013 New York Book Festival will hold a day festival on Saturday, June 22 at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway hotel for its annual event honoring books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital. Those...
New York, NY/ May 6, 2013 --Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council are honored to present the 2013 Impact Award to Michele Norris for creatively and significantly advancing our collective mission of instilling a lifelong love of reading in...
Gütersloh, April 29, 2013 – Today, the international media company Bertelsmann, which owns Random House in the US, set the price for the secondary public offering of ordinary shares of RTL Group at €55.50 per ordinary share. The transaction represents...
INDIANAPOLIS/April 29, 2013 — The Society of Professional Journalists gladly recognizes the recipients of the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, which recognize exceptional professional journalism produced in 2012. Judges selected 84 honorees from nearly 1,700 submissions....
The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) has named Angela Bole as its new executive director, replacing Florrie Binford Kichler, who is retiring in June. Ms. Bole, who currently serves as deputy executive director of the Book Industry Study Group, will...
BOSTON, MASS/April 24, 2013--The 2013 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The day festival and awards will be held in January, 2014 at the historic Omni Parker House Hotel in...
NEW YORK (April 22, 2013) - Michael Rapoport, The Wall Street Journal’s accounting reporter since 2010, will be the keynote speaker at the 30th annual Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards Tuesday April 30 in New York. The awards, sponsored by the New York...
