MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2011 Edition Kindle Fire Ranks Tops in Most Gifted Holiday Products SEATTLE/ AUTHORLINK NEWS/VIA BUSINESS WIRE--December. 19, 2011Amazon.com announced late last week that Kindle devices remain the hottest products this holiday...
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BALLANTINE TO PUBLISH SIMON COWELL BIOGRAPHY
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 12 - Dec 18, 2011 Edition BALLANTINE TO PUBLISH SIMON COWELL BIOGRAPHY NEW YORK, NY/Decemer 16, 2011--Ballantine Books will publish SWEET REVENGE: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell by journalist Tom Bower, it was announced today. This...
Indy Bookstores Predict Strong Holiday Sales
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2011 Edition Indy Bookstores Predict Strong Holiday Sales Tarrytown, NY/Authorlink News/ December 8, 2011-- Independent bookstores are showing continued resilience this holiday season, as reported online and in-store sales are well...
McGraw-Hill Splits Company Into Two Entities
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2011 Edition McGraw-Hill Splits Company Into Two Entities NEW YORK, Dec. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) yesterday provided an update on its Growth and Value Plan (announced September 12, 2011), which...
BISG Sets Policy for Assigning eBook ISBNs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2011 Edition BISG Sets Policy for Assigning eBook ISBNs NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/December 8, 20111The Book Industry Study Group, after two years of work, has issued policy standards and best practices for the assignment of ISBN...
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest Underway
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2011 Edition Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest Underway SEATTLE & NEW YORK & CHARLESTON, S.C. December 6, 2011 Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Penguin Group (USA) today announced the fifth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel...
Barnes & Noble Takes Unexpected Sales Hit
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Nov 27- Dec 4, 2011 Edition Barnes & Noble Takes Unexpected Sales Hit Barnes & Noble Inc. on December 1 reported an unexpected decline of 0.6% in sales for the second quarter compared to the prior year. Total sales fell from $1.90 billion to $1.89...
Hesse to Head Bertelsmann Digital Transformation
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Nov 27- Dec 4, 2011 Edition Hesse to Head Bertelsmann Digital Transformation Gütersloh/AUTHORLINK NEWS/November 30, 2011 Thomas Hesse has been named to the executive board of Bertelsmann AG, the international media company which owns Random House...
BISG Now Shipping E-Book Consumer Survey
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Nov 27- Dec 4, 2011 Edition BISG Now Shipping E-Book Consumer Survey NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/Nov. 29, 2011--The Book Industry Study Group is now shipping Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading, Volume Two: Summary Report 4 of 4 .Since...
Canadian Booksellers President Resigns
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2011 Edition Canadian Booksellers President Resigns CANADA/AUTHORLINK NEWS VIA QUILL AND QUIRE/November 28, 2011--At a time of major uncertainty for independent booksellers, the current vice-president and incoming president of the...
