MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2012 Edition 2013 SAN FRANCISCO BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES SAN FRANCISCO _ The 2013 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The 2013 San...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2012 Edition Great Northwest book Festival Calls for Entries PORTLAND/Authorlink News/October 18, 2012--The 2013 Great Northwest Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its competition honoring the best books of the late...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2012 Edition Author Freethy Sells 1 Million NOOK Books™ Via PubIt!™ New York, New York – October 18, 2012 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2012 Edition Pen Literary Awards Call for Entries Submissions are now open for the 2013 PEN Literary Awards. Our awards program, the most comprehensive in the country, will present 17 awards in 2013. Send in your submissions or...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2012 Edition Grimmelmann Joins PW as Legal Editor NEW YORK—October 9, 2012— Publishers Weekly has appointed James Grimmelmann, professor of law at New York Law School, as contributing editor for legal affairs. One of the foremost...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2012 Edition Book Subject Codes to Go International Frankfurt, Germany (October 10, 2012) – Book industry representatives from 15 countries announced today the formation of a new, global standard to categorize and classify book...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2012 Edition Chautauqua Institution Calls for Literary Prize Submissions Chautauqua Institution is pleased to invite submissions for its important new annual prize for a work of fiction or literary/narrative nonfiction. Awarded for...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct. 1 - 7, 2012 Edition John Fallon to succeed Marjorie Scardino as Pearson’s chief executive Pearson is today announcing that Marjorie Scardino has decided to step down as Pearson’s chief executive at the end of 2012. John Fallon will succeed her...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Sept 24 - Sept 30, 2012 Edition Rouvillois to Guide Barnes and Noble Global Expansion New York, NY, and Luxembourg City, Luxembourg/ September 25, 2012 -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Sept 17 - Sept 23, 2012 Edition Berkley Inks Huge Deal for Maya Banks Romance Trilogy New York, NY, September 17, 2012— Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), announced today the acquisition of an all-new trilogy of erotic romance novels...