March 10, 2010
- AUTHORLINK NEWS/03/11/10--A study by The Journal of Electronic Publishing released last week concludes that "when free e-books are offered for a relatively long period of time, without requiring registration, print sales will increase."
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - COLORADO/AUTHORLINK NEWS/03/09/10-Amazon.com has notified Colorado-based members of its Amazon Associates program that it will no longer offer the program in the state due to new legislation that will impose a sales tax on online retailers.
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/03/08/10-- Barnes & Noble, Inc. this week named Jonathan Shar as General Manager, Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com. Mr. Shar will be responsible for creating and leading the digital newsstand and emerging content business, a large strategic focus for the company. He will work with newspaper, magazine, periodical, blogs and other content publishers, to sell and market their digital editorial products to millions of Barnes & Noble...
- TORONTO/AUTHORLINK NEWS/03/11/10--The Canadian Booksellers Association last week urged the Ministry of Canadian Heritage to reject Amazon.com's application to enter the Canadian market, claiming that such a move "would detrimentally affect the country's independent businesses and cultural industries."
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/03/11/10--Barnes & Noble Inc. last week named playwright Victor Lodato's haunting debut novel, Mathilda Savitch (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Dave Cullen's meticulously researched work on the Colorado tragedy, Columbine (Twelve), winners of the 2009 "Discover Great New Writers Awards," for fiction and non-fiction, respectively. Each writer was awarded a cash prize of $10,000, and a full year of marketing and merchandising support from the bookseller.
... - Published Thursday, March 11, 2010 (for the sales week ended Sunday, March 7, 2010). Based on reporting from many hundreds of independent bookstores across the United States. For information on more titles, please visit www.IndieBound.org
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - New York, New York/Authorlink News/March 10, 2010--Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group (USA),has started a new imprint for science books for general readers that will be called Current. Adrian Zackheim, the president and publisher of Penguin Group (USA)'s Portfolio and Sentinel imprints, is adding the same roles for Current, which will share the existing editorial, marketing and publicity staff of Portfolio and Sentinel.
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March 3, 2010
- NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORINK NEWS/03/03/10--Reed Business Information, which also owns Publishers Weekly, this week sold three of its properties to Dublin, Ohio-based Media Source.
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - TARRYTOWN,NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/03/02/10--The American Booksellers Association this week unveiled the finalists for the 2010 Indies Choice Book Awards.
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Most articles free for first 7 days to everyone; complete site content available to members. - NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/03/03/10--The Random House Publishing Group announced this week the establishment of a new group responsible for the creation of original transmedia intellectual property (IP)-story content that can be accessed through multiple media sources including video games, social networks on the web, mobile platforms, in print and on film-that will be developed and marketed in partnerships with other media companies.
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