MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2011 Edition Borders Delays Publisher Payments, Bankruptcy Looms AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 31, 2011—Borders Group, Inc., America’s second-largest bookstore chain, said Sunday it will delay payments to publishers and other vendors,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2011 Edition Amazon Reports Huge Sales Increase in Fourth Quarter SEATTLE/AUTHORLINK NEWS/ January 28, 2011--Amazon.com, Inc. late yesterday announced a net sales increased 36% to $12.95 billion in the fourth quarter ended December...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2011 Edition Random House Offers Kids App for Bestseller Rocket New York, NY/Authorlink News/January 27, 2011—Random House Children’s Books (www.randomhouse.com/kids) today announced that How Rocket Learned to Read for iPad is now...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2011 Edition BN Offers Pre-Orders for Open Secrets-Wikileaks New York, New York/Authorlink News/January 27, 2011--Barnes & Noble, Inc. has announced that it is the only company taking pre-orders for Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2011 Edition NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES NEW YORK/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 25, 2011--The 2011 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual event honoring books that deserve greater recognition from...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2011 Edition Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards Accepting Entries SEATTLE, WA/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 24, 2011--Amazon.com, along with Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, has announced the fourth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2011 Edition Borders Cuts 45 Employees, Offers Deal to Publishers ANN ARBOR, MICH/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 18, 2010--Troubled bookseller Borders Group, Inc. this week laid off 40 employees at headquarters and another five in its...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2011 Edition RANDOM HOUSE DEBUTS ONLINE TALK SHOW NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLIK NEWS/January 18, 2011--The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in collaboration with Kathy Patrick, founder of The Pulpwood...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2011 Edition BISG Study Questions ISBN Use for E-Books NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/January 17, 2011—A study conducted for The Book Industry Study Group on how ISBN numbers are deployed for e-books in the retail marketplace found...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2011 Edition AAP Reports 5.1 percent Increase in November Book Sales New York, NY, Authorlink News/January 14, 2011— Publishers’ book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of November increased...