MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 1 - May 8, 2011 Edition Children's Choice Book Awards Announced NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/May 3, 2011—The Children’s Book Council (CBC) in association with Every Child A Reader, the CBC Foundation, announced the winners of the fourth annual...

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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 25- April 30, 2011 Edition PEN America Launches Emerging Writers Award New York City, April 25, 2011—PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, announced last week the creation of the...

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%...

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 Amazon’s Kindle during the 2010 holiday season launched a turning point in e-book...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition E-Book Sales Continue to Soar NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 18, 2011—E-book sales climbed 202.3% in February 2011 over January sales, according to a report last week by the Association of American Publishers....

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 nation’s third largest bookstore chain, reported a sales decline of 6.3% to $385 million, for the year ended January 29....

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."...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 18- April 24, 2011 Edition Kobo Gets $50 Million in eReading Funding TORONTO, ON/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 20, 2011—Kobo, a global leader in eReading yesterday closed a $50 Million investment round led by a leading institutional investor....

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,...