M2 Best Books articles from December 2006

M2 Best Books archives from December 2006

London bookshops join new loyalty card scheme.(Foyles, Crockatt and Powall and The Lamb's Bookshop )(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookshops in London, UK including Foyles, Crockatt & Powall and The Lamb's Bookshop have joined the new Wedge Card affinity scheme. The scheme, which was originally created by the founder...

New cookbook for vegans launched.(Logical Expressions Inc.)(Vegan Success: Scrumptious, Healthy Vegan Recipes for Busy People)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new cookbook has been launched by Logical Expressions Inc, entitled Vegan Success: Scrumptious, Healthy Vegan Recipes for Busy People. Vegan Success reportedly focuses on recipes that...

E-books to be distributed to academic libraries by YBP.(Baker and Taylor company partnership with Ebooks Corporation Limited)(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD YBP Library Services, a Baker & Taylor company which provides materials to academic libraries, has announced that it is to market a collection of e-books in partnership with EBL, a division...

Read For 2007: Read For Life to launch on 8 December.(Brief article)
December 1, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The eighth annual worldwide read-a-thon for children, 'Read For 2007: Read For Life', created by children's publishing company Scholastic, is to launch on 8 December in partnership with...

Random House UK to launch Vintage Classics list.(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Random House has announced that it is to launch a Vintage Classics list in the UK, with 20 titles being released in August 2007. Books in the red-spined Vintage Classics range...

Amazon.com chooses HP for digital colour printing.(Brief article)
December 4, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Online retailer Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has chosen technology solutions provider HP (NYSE:HPQ) (NASDAQ:HPQ) to provide its books-on-demand service with digital colour printing. A...

New book consolidates the Gospels into one text.(Brief article)
December 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book has been produced using new technology to unify the four Gospels of the Bible. Author Gregg Zegarelli, a technology attorney, spent more than two and a half years on the...

Scholastic names new president of Scholastic At Home.(appointment of Seth D. Radwell)(Brief article)
December 5, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Educational and children's publisher Scholastic Corporation (Nasdaq: SCHL) reported on Monday (4 December) the appointment of a new president of Scholastic At Home, the company's division...

Winner of Guardian first book award announced.(Brief article)
December 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD This year's Guardian first book award has been won by Chinese-born author Yiyun Li for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, a collection of short stories. This is the first time a...

QI book expected to sell well for Christmas.(Quite Interesting)(QI: The Book of General Ignorance )(Brief article)
December 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A book written by the creator of the BBC television show QI is expected to be one of this year's most popular Christmas books in the UK. QI: The Book of General Ignorance is full of...

Random House plans partnership marketing programme in the UK - report.(Brief article)
December 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Random House is reportedly planning to use partnership marketing in the UK to help increase awareness and sales for female fiction authors. According to Brand Republic the...

Scholastic announces children's must-read books for 2007.(Brief article)
December 6, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Educational and children's publisher Scholastic Corporation (Nasdaq: SCHL) has revealed the results of its online poll to find children's must-read books for 2007. The results of the...

Winner of John Llewellyn Rhys award announced.(Brief article)
December 7, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The GBP5,000 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Uzodinma Iweala's debut novel entitled Beasts of No Nation. According to The Guardian, the book tells the story of a...

Bodleian Library receives book collection from Blackwell family.(Brief article)
December 7, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Bodleian Library, the main research library of Oxford University, has been gifted a collection of rare books belonging to Sir Basil Blackwell, of bookshop chain Blackwell, by his family....

Penguin Classics works with designers to produce new book covers.(Brief article)
December 7, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Penguin Classics has announced that, in partnership with a number of designers including fashion designer Paul Smith, new cover designs have been created for a selection of classic books. ...

John Wiley & Sons reports second quarter results.
December 8, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc (NYSE: JWa, JWb) has reported financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal year 2007. Revenue in the quarter ended 31 October 2006 totalled...

Bookstores to receive awards from Mystery Writers of America.(Raven Award for 2007)(Brief article)
December 8, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Mystery Writers of America (MWA) has announced that two US bookstore companies which support fiction and non-fiction crime writers are to be recognised with the Raven Award for 2007. The...

New edition of The Cosmic Onion published.(The Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe )(Brief article)
December 8, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new edition of Frank Close's 1983 physics book The Cosmic Onion is being published by the Taylor & Francis Group. The New Cosmic Onion: Quarks and the Nature of the Universe explores...

Drug reference handbook to be published by McGraw-Hill Professional.(Brief article)
December 8, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD McGraw-Hill Professional, a provider of information resources for the scientific and medical communities, has revealed that it will be publishing an award-winning drug handbook from the 2008...

Borders Group Inc confirms quarterly cash dividend.
December 11, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Book chain Borders Group Inc (NYSE:BGP) reported on 8 December that its board of directors has confirmed a quarterly cash dividend of USD0.11 per share of common stock. The dividend will...

Thomson Gale releases updated Encyclopaedia Judaica.(Brief article)
December 11, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Thomson Gale, a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC) (TSX:TOC), reported today (11 December) that along with Keter Publishing House it has published the second edition of the...

School Download Library introduced by OverDrive.(Brief article)
December 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new service for students to borrow and download audiobooks and e-books is now available from OverDrive Inc, a digital media distributor. School Download Library is designed for use by...

Bloomsbury issues profit warning.(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)(Brief article)
December 12, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (LSE:BMY) has warned that its profit for the full year 2006 may not meet market forecasts. The company issued a trading update after the markets closed on...

Art book retitled by Tin House.(Brief article)
December 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The name of an art book based on Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow has reportedly been altered by publisher Tin House in Portland, US due to pressure from Penguin Books. The title...

Barnes & Noble delays Q3 results.(Brief article)
December 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc (NYSE:BKS) has announced that it is to delay the filing of its third-quarter report. According to The Associated Press, the delay has been caused by an...

Covent Garden store opened by Taschen.(Brief article)
December 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new 600 square foot shop located at 48 Neal Street in Covent Garden, London has been opened by Taschen, an art and design publisher. The shop is reportedly to be managed on a temporary...

Consumers encouraged by Greenpeace to buy 'green' books this Christmas.(Brief article)
December 13, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Consumers are now able to purchase a selection of books printed on ancient forest friendly paper this Christmas, three years after the launch of the Greenpeace Book Campaign. According...

Nestle Children's Book prize won by Golding's The Diamond of Drury Lane.(Julia Golding)(Brief article)
December 14, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD This year's Nestle Children's Book prize has been won by The Diamond of Drury Lane written by former diplomat Julia Golding, who collects the prize at a ceremony at the British Library. ...

Borders franchise to open seven more stores in Malaysia.(Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd)(Brief article)
December 14, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Seven more outlets are to be opened in Malaysia during the next five to six years by Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd, the franchise holder for Borders bookstores in Malaysia. The company intends...

Happy Hound book published for rescue dog owners.(Happy Hound: Develop a Great Relationship with Your Adopted Dog or Puppy)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 14, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book has been published entitled Happy Hound: Develop a Great Relationship with Your Adopted Dog or Puppy by Susan Daffron, a dog owner who has worked as a veterinary technician and at...

Faber's marketing director to leave at end of year.(Noel Murphy to resign from Faber and Faber Inc.)(Brief article)
December 15, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Noel Murphy, marketing director of publisher Faber, is to leave the company at the end of the year to emigrate to New Zealand with his family. Will Atkinson, who currently serves as...

New York Times list includes 21 Simon & Schuster bestsellers.(Brief article)
December 15, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The New York Times bestseller list will, for the first time, include 21 separate bestsellers from publisher Simon & Schuster Inc on 24 December 2006. The publisher's bestsellers include...

Avalon Publishing names William Strachan as new editor-in-chief.(Avalon Publishing Group)(Brief article)
December 15, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Avalon Publishing Group, a publisher with imprints including Carroll & Graf and Thunder's Mouth Press, has named William Strachan as its new editor-in-chief. Avalon Publishing said...

Rights to three books bought for Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil.(Brief article)
December 15, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Initial Entertainment, producer Graham King's company, has bought the rights to turn three books into movies for actor Johnny Depp's production company Infinitum Nihil, which are to be...

Finney Company acquires Pogo Press.
December 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Finney Company, a publisher and distributor of educational materials based in Minnesota in the US, has revealed that it has acquired Pogo Press, a small publisher based in St. Paul. Pogo...

Gibson Square to publish KGB book co-authored by Alexander Litvinenko.(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A book co-authored by Alexander Litvinenko, the recently murdered former Russian spy, is to be published by Gibson Square, an independent publisher based in London, in the UK, with Compass...

Nordic eMarketing announces online availability of The Icelandic Horse.(Brief article)
December 18, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Nordic eMarketing, an online marketing company based in Iceland, has announced that The Icelandic Horse, a new book providing a comprehensive resource on the breed, is now available online....

New book links African tribes and ancient Minoans.("Who Were the Minoans? An African Answer")(Brief article)
December 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD AuthorHouse has published a new book by Graham Campbell-Dunn entitled Who Were the Minoans? An African Answer. In his new book Campbell-Dunn presents an in-depth assessment of the...

UK-based consortium acquires film and TV rights to Peter Pan in Scarlet.(Brief article)
December 19, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A UK-based consortium has acquired the film and television rights to Peter Pan in Scarlet by Geraldine McCaughrean, the official sequel to Peter Pan by JM Barrie. The new book, which was...

Q2 2007 results posted by Scholastic.
December 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Scholastic Corporation (Nasdaq:SCHL), a publisher and distributor of children's books, on 19 December reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 ended 30 November 2006. ...

2007 Yearbook of Road Transport Law published by FTA.(Freight Transport Association )(Brief article)
December 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The 2007 Yearbook of Road Transport Law has been published by the Freight Transport Association (FTA), a UK-based trade association. The 45th edition of the book has been written and...

RSC to premiere Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad.(Royal Shakespeare Company, "The Penelopiad")(Brief article)
December 20, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Canada's National Arts Centre and the Royal Shakespeare Company in the UK have announced that they are to produce author Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. Atwood is best known for her...

Annual statistical yearbook issued by Statistics Centre of Dubai.(Statistical Year Book - Emirate of Dubai 2005)(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Independent statistical body Statistics Centre of Dubai has published the 17th issue of its annual statistical yearbook entitled Statistical Year Book - Emirate of Dubai 2005. The book...

Australian library hosts speed-dating nights.(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Speed-dating nights for Australian literature fans have been introduced by the state library of Victoria in Melbourne. According to Reuters, speed-daters attending the evenings must...

Turkish author Ipek Calislar cleared of insult charges.(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Author Ipek Calislar has been cleared in Turkey of allegedly insulting Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in her biography of his wife, Latife. The charges were brought when a complaint was made by...

Children's author removes book from Amazon.(George Walker)(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Children's writer George Walker, the author of Tales from an Airfield, has requested that his book be removed from sale on Internet bookseller Amazon's UK website. Walker has reportedly...

Syngress Publishing acquired by Reed Elsevier Group.(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based publisher of educational and scientific books Reed Elsevier Group Plc has announced that it has purchased Syngress Publishing Inc, a publisher of information technology titles based...

Top 10 out-of-print books of 2006 revealed by BookFinder.com.(Brief article)
December 21, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD E-commerce search engine BookFinder.com has revealed its list of the top 10 most sought-after out-of-print books of 2006. Number one on the list is Madonna's Sex, with second position...

JK Rowling reveals title of final Potter book.(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The title of the seventh and last Harry Potter book has been revealed by author JK Rowling. In an announcement made on Rowling's official website the author unveiled the new book's title...

Early Roald Dahl book to be republished.(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD As a result of campaign by a US Air Force historian an early work by author Roald Dahl entitled The Gremlins is to be republished. The book, which was initially published in 1943,...

Website launched by The Texas Bookman.(http://www.texasbookman.com)(Brief article)
December 22, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Texas Bookman, the remainder-wholesaling subsidiary of US-based Half Price Books, has announced the launch of http://www.texasbookman.com. According to Publishers Weekly, the new...

Coutts Information Services acquired by Ingram.
December 22, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based Coutts Information Services and its e-book hosting platform, MyiLibrary, have been acquired by Ingram Industries Inc, which includes Ingram Book Group. Financial terms were not...

Borders relocates Boulder, Colorado store.(Brief article)
December 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders has announced that it will relocate its store at 1600 Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, US at the end of January to a new 23,129 square foot store located at Twenty Ninth...

Fort Myers, Florida store to be opened by Borders.(Brief article)
December 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders has announced that, in early March, it will open a 22,169 square foot store located in Fort Myers, Florida, US. According to the company the store will be located in...

Most popular books for 2006 announced by Nielsen.(Brief article)
December 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Nielsen BookScan has released information on the most popular books in the United States during 2006. The most popular adult fiction hardcover book among Americans in 2006 was For One...

Bets being taken on plot of new Potter story.(Bookmakers betting on Harry Potter series)(Brief article)
December 27, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookmakers have begun taking bets on the plot of the last instalment in the Harry Potter series of books from JK Rowling. Bookies are currently giving odds as to whether or not Harry will...

New publishing brand announced by WorldatWork.(Brief article)
December 28, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD WorldatWork, an international association of human resources professionals, has announced plans to market its books under the name WorldatWork Press. The new publishing brand will...

Thalia to acquire Buch & Kunst.(Buch and Kunst-Gruppe acquired by Barclays Private Equity)(Brief article)
December 28, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Douglas, a retailer based in Germany, announced on Wednesday (27 December) that the company's Thalia bookstore unit is to acquire German bookseller Buch & Kunst-Gruppe. Buch & Kunst,...

Waitrose Food Illustrated offers GBP20,000 book contract for best unpublished food writer.
December 28, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based supermarket chain Waitrose has announced that the Waitrose Food Illustrated magazine is to offer the country's best unpublished food author a book contract valued at GBP20,000. ...

Royal Mail makes plans for launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.(Royal Mail Group PLC)(Brief article)
December 29, 2006... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The postal service in the UK is already making preparations for the launch of the final book by JK Rowling in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No launch...