MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 25- April 30, 2011 Edition PEN America Launches Emerging Writers Award New York City, April 25, 2011PEN American Center, the largest branch of the worlds oldest literary and human rights organization, announced last week the creation of the...
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Nook Opens Doors to App Developers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 25- April 30, 2011 Edition Nook Opens Doors to App Developers New York, NY/Authorlink News/ April 25, 2011--Barnes & Noble, Inc. recently opened its doors to developer innovation with its NOOK Developer program. The company is delivering new...
McGraw-Hill Digital Grows in First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 25- April 30, 2011 Edition McGraw-Hill Digital Grows in First Quarter NEW YORK, NY/April 26, 2011--The McGraw-Hill Companies today reported a 16.2% increase in net income to $120.0 million for the first quarter of 2011. Revenue grew by 7.7%...
BISG Study Says More Buyers Move to E-Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 25- April 30, 2011 Edition BISG Study Says More Buyers Move to E-Books New York, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 28, 2011--The surge in sales of e-reading devices like Amazons Kindle during the 2010 holiday season launched a turning point in e-book...
Egan Wins Pulitzer for Fiction
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition Egan Wins Pulitzer for Fiction NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 19, 2011--Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her unusual novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad."...
Books-A-Million Sales Decline
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition Books-A-Million Sales Decline NEW YORK/NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 18, 2011--Books-A-Million, the nations third largest bookstore chain, reported a sales decline of 6.3% to $385 million, for the year ended January 29....
E-Book Sales Continue to Soar
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition E-Book Sales Continue to Soar NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 18, 2011E-book sales climbed 202.3% in February 2011 over January sales, according to a report last week by the Association of American Publishers....
Kobo Gets $50 Million in eReading Funding
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition Kobo Gets $50 Million in eReading Funding TORONTO, ON/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 20, 2011Kobo, a global leader in eReading yesterday closed a $50 Million investment round led by a leading institutional investor....
Random House Revives Hogarth Press
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 11- April 17, 2011 Edition Random House Revives Hogarth Press LONDON/NEW YORK/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 11, 2011Random House has announced the revival of Hogarth Press, founded by literary giants Virginia and Leonard Woolf. The new fiction...
McGraw-Hill To Post First Quarter Earnings
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 11- April 17, 2011 Edition McGraw-Hill To Post First Quarter Earnings NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK via PRNewswire/April 11, 2011--The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) announced today that its first quarter 2011 results will be issued on Tuesday,...
