MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 22 - May 29, 2011 Edition Former Time Warner CEO Heads Amazon Publishing NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/ May 23, 2011—Larry Kirshbaum, former Time Warner Book Group CEO and current agent, has been named v-p of publishing for Amazon Publishing’s...

H3>MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition Barnes & Noble Finds Potential Buyer New York, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 19, 2011--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), today announced that the Special Committee of its Board of Directors has received a proposal from...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition Print Books Grow While E-Book Sales Soar Washington, DC/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 19, 2011--Both print and digital formats of books enjoyed revenue gains in March 2011 vs last year according to the monthly net sales report...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition Simon & Schuster to Launch India Publisher NEW YORK, LONDON and NEW DELHI/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 19, 2011—As part of its strategic focus on bringing the works of its authors to the widest possible global audience, Simon &...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition BISG Looks for New Director New York, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 18, 2011--The Book Industry Study Group (BISG), the industry's leading trade association for policy, standards and research, today announced that Scott...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 19, 2011 Edition Madoff’s Daughter-in-Law to Write Inside Story for Blue Rider Press New York , NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 18, 2011--Bernard Madoff’s daughter-in-law, Stephanie Madoff-Mack, widow of Mark Madoff, will tell the first genuine...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition Penguin’s New Imprint Named Blue Rider Press New York, NY/Authorlink News/May 17, 2011--David Rosenthal’s general trade imprint at Penguin Group (USA), launched in November 2010, will be called Blue Rider Press, it was...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 16 - May 22, 2011 Edition BN Hits One Million App Downloads NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News Via BUSINESS WIRE--Barnes & Noble, Inc. announced a major new milestone for its recently updated NOOK Color Reader’s Tablet™. Just one week after the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 9 - May 15, 2011 Edition HarperCollins, RR Donnelley Team on Printing, Fulfillment NEW YORK and CHICAGO/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 12, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HarperCollins Publishers and RR Donnelley (Nasdaq:RRD) today announced their intent to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 9 - May 15, 2011 Edition Bertelsmann Profits Up in First Quarter Gütersloh/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 12, 2011-- The international media company Bertelsmann, which owns Random House in the US, began the 2011 fiscal year with higher revenues and a...