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Amazon Third Quarter Sales Up 39 Percent

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 25 - Oct 31 2010 Edition Amazon Third Quarter Sales Up 39 Percent SEATTLE/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 25, 2010--Amazon.com, Inc. late last week announced that third quarter sales ending September 30, 2010 were up 39% to $7.56 billion. Net sales...

Sterling to Launch New Young Adult Imprint

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2010 Edition Sterling to Launch New Young Adult Imprint New York, NY/Authorlink News/October 20, 2010-- Sterling Children’s Books announced today that the company will launch a new imprint called Splinter and will begin publishing...

Random House Acquires World Rights to Rushdie Memoir

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2010 Edition Random House Acquires World Rights to Rushdie Memoir NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 21, 2010—In one of the most far-reaching multi-national and multi-language book-publishing deals by one publisher for a single...

AAP’s Young Publishing Group to Celebrate National Book Awards

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2010 Edition AAP’s Young Publishing Group to Celebrate National Book Awards New York, NY, October 20, 2010— The Association of American Publishers’ Young to Publishing Group will host the inaugural House Party: A Celebration of the...

Jon Meacham Named Random House VP, Executive Editor

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2010 Edition Jon Meacham Named Random House VP, Executive Editor NEW YORK/NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 20, 2010--Jon Meacham, the former editor of Newsweek magazine and the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of AMERICAN...

Barnes & Noble Appoints New Legal Counsel

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2010 Edition Barnes & Noble Appoints New Legal Counsel NEW YORK/AUTHORLINK NEWS/Oct 18, 2010--Barnes & Noble, Inc. has appointment Gene DeFelice as Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for Barnes & Noble. Mr....

Borders Names Executive VP, CFO

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 18- Oct 24, 2010 Edition Borders Names Executive VP, CFO ANN ARBOR, Mich/AUTHORLINK NEWS/Oct. 18, 2010—Borders Group, Inc. has appointed Scott Henry Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective today. He reports to Mike...

Borders Offers Writers eBook Publishing Service

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition Borders Offers Writers eBook Publishing Service ANN ARBOR, Mich./AUTHORLINK NEWS/Oct 15, 2010--Borders today announced that it has teamed with BookBrewer to launch BORDERS - GET PUBLISHED(TM) Powered by BookBrewer. The...

Book Sales Up 6.9 Percent Year to Date, says AAP

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition Book Sales Up 6.9 Percent Year to Date, says AAP New York, NY, October 14, 2010— Publishers’ book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of August increased 3.4 percent on the prior...

2010 National Book Awards Finalists Announced

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2010 Edition 2010 National Book Awards Finalists Announced New York, NY/ AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 14, 2010--Author Pat Conroy announced the twenty Finalists for the 2010 National Book Award at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in...