M2 Best Books articles from September 2005

M2 Best Books archives from September 2005

Carly Fiorina, ex Hewlett-Packard CEO, to publish memoirs.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, is to write a book about her career. Fiorina was with the company for six years before her contract was terminated...

New store openings for Indigo Books.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD In an announcement made on Wednesday (31 August) Heather Reisman, the chief executive officer of Canadian-based bookstore operator Indigo Books and Music Inc, revealed that the company is to...

Possible prison sentence for Turkish novelist for "insulting national character".
September 1, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Orhan Pamuk, a Turkish novelist, could be facing a prison sentence after being charged with insulting Turkey's national character. According to Tugrul Pasaoglu, Pamuk's publisher, the...

The Folio Society launches its new e-commerce business.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Folio Society has announced that it is launching its own e-commerce site, http://www.foliobooks.net, on 1 September 2005. Internet shoppers will now be able to purchase the society's...

New children's book promotes conservative values.
September 2, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A conservative parent in the US has written a children's book that promotes a right-wing viewpoint. 'Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!' by Catherine DeBrecht tells the story of...

Further objections raised against Google's scanning of copyrighted books.
September 2, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Internet company Google Inc may face legal action over its plans to scan copyrighted books for its Google Print Library project. As part of the project Google is digitalising books to...

Conference for Christian fiction writers planned.
September 2, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A conference will be held later this month for authors of Christian fiction work. The American Christian Fiction Writers conference will feature announcements of the Book of the Year and...

Management bid for Ottakar's is raised.
September 7, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The takeover bid made by a management team at UK book chain Ottakar's has been increased in an effort to block a potential rival bid from HMV Group. HMV, which owns the chain of HMV...

Penguin buys English rights to Chinese bestseller.
September 7, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The English-language publishing rights to a popular Chinese novel have been bought by UK-based publishing group Penguin. Penguin reportedly paid USD100,000 for the global rights to...

Book publisher offers podcasts.
September 7, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD German-owned publishing group Holtzbrinck Publishers is reportedly to offer free podcasts of selected titles. Weekly audio excerpts of books released by Holtzbrinck trade publishers such...

iTunes adds Harry Potter books.
September 8, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Harry Potter books have been made available for purchase as audio downloads through Apple's iTunes website, as individual books or the entire set. The online sale of the six books,...

Random House reports rise in profit for first half of 2005.
September 8, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Book publisher Random House, part of German media group Bertelsmann, recorded revenues of EUR799m for the first half of 2005. Revenues declined from EUR818m in the first half of the prior...

New website showcasing Scottish books to be launched.
September 8, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new commercial website, http://www.booskfromscotland.org, is to be launched in September by the Scottish Publishers' Association (SPA) to provide readers with access to a variety of books...

HMV submits bid for Ottakar's.
September 8, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based retail group HMV Group Plc (LSE:HMV), which owns the chain of HMV music stores and the Waterstone's bookshops, has made a bid to acquire UK book chain Ottakar's Plc (LSE:OKR). ...

Booker shortlist announced.
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2005 has been announced and includes authors such as Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, Sebastian Barry and John...

Clarification of HMV bid required by Ottakar's.(Correction Notice)
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK book chain Ottakar's Plc (LSE:OKR) has announced that its independent directors have requested clarification from UK-based retail group HMV Group Plc (LSE:HMV) regarding the terms and...

Hurricane threatens future of New Orleans-based high school book project.
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The future of an inner-city book project at a high school New Orleans is being threatened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Neighborhood Story Project was set up by teachers Abram...

New BBC children's series based on Pratchett novel.
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Johnny and the Bomb, a best-selling novel from sci-fi writer Terry Pratchett, is set to be turned into a new BBC series for children, starring Zoe Wanamaker, Frank Finlay and Keith Barron....

Dorling Kindersley signed as Xrefer publishing partner.
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Dorling Kindersley has entered into an agreement with Xrefer, a provider of customisable online reference collections to libraries, to provide its Financial Times World Desk...

Calls for publisher Reed Elsevier to stop promoting the arms trade.
September 9, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Medical journal The Lancet has announced that its editors have called for a halt to the promotion of the international arms trade by its corporate owner. The journal is currently...

Ashes fever to hit the shelves.(cricketers pact with publishers to release books)(Orion and Crossing the Boundary)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD As the fifth and final Ashes Test draws to a close publishers are waiting to see if England can clinch a victory over Australia. England's cricketers have signed up with commissioning editors...

Ottakar's bosses may receive payouts from HMV bid.
September 12, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD James Heneage, managing director of Ottakar's, and Philip Dunne, chairman of the bookseller, could receive payouts of GBP12.2m and GBP4.9m respectively if the group accepts HMV's bid for the...

Chinese court victory for Beatrix Potter books.
September 12, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A Chinese court has ruled in favour of Frederick Warne and Co, a subsidiary of Penguin Books, banning a state-owned Chinese publishing house from using Beatrix Potter's own illustrations in...

Turkey condemned by Booker nominees for charges against author.(Kazuo Ishiguro criticises trial against Orhan Pamuk)(Brief Article)
September 12, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Man Booker Prize nominee Kazuo Ishiguro has condemned the decision by Turkey to charge novelist Orhan Pamuk for speaking out against Turkey's involvement in the Armenian genocide of 1915. ...

Ottakar's recommends shareholders accept HMV takeover bid offer.(HMV Ltd. to acquire 23% stock of Ottakar's)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK bookseller Ottakar's has announced that it is to recommend that its shareholders vote in favour of a takeover bid from HMV. The bid from HMV of GBP4.40 per share, or a total of some...

Bloomsbury profits rise as result of overseas expansion.(Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 13, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bloomsbury, the publisher responsible for the Harry Potter series, announced on Tuesday (13 September) that it has recorded a 12.4% increase in pre-tax profit for the first half of 2005. The...

Books-A-Million book sales impacted by hurricane.
September 13, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Birmingham, Ala.-based bookseller Books-A-Million (Nasdaq:BAMM) has announced that it has reduced its forecast of earnings for the third quarter and fiscal 2006 due to the impact of Hurricane...

Buy.com to undercut Amazon.com book prices by 10%.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Buy.com, an online bookseller, announced on Monday (12 September) that until the end of the year it is to sell the range of books it currently holds in stock for 10% less than its competitor...

Random House to acquire publishing operations of FAZ group - report.(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD According to a report published in the Financial Times Deutschland, German-based newspaper publisher Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH (FAZ) is to sell a substantial portion of its...

New CSIRO diet book tops the charts in Australia.(Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and JK Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have reportedly been ousted from the top spots in Australia's bestseller list by a new diet book devised...

Potential US acquisitions are overpriced for Bloomsbury - report.(Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bloomsbury, the UK-based publisher responsible for the Harry Potter books, has reportedly been forced to put its plans for US expansion on hold after discovering that many of its potential...

EU criticises Turkey's charges against author.(European Union)(Orhan Pamuk)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Turkey has been criticised by MEPs as well as the European Union's enlargement commissioner for its decision to charge novelist Orhan Pamuk for speaking out against Turkey's involvement in...

Pearson sued by business textbook authors over royalties.(Courtland Bovee and John Thill)(Brief Article)
September 14, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Pearson Education is faced with an impending lawsuit after two of its business textbook authors, Courtland Bovee and John Thill, claimed that they have been deprived of royalties owed to them...

Jerome K Jerome novel set to become BBC2 comedy.(British Broadcasting Corp.)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The BBC has revealed that it is to launch a new two-part comedy series to be aired on BBC2 that recreates Jerome K Jerome's Victorian novel Three Men in a Boat. The new series will...

2006 public offering in the pipeline for Springer Science & Business Media.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Scientific literature publisher Springer Science & Business Media group is to aim for a public offering early in 2006, according to recent reports. Colin Buffin, business manager for UK...

Judging panels for 2005 named by Whitbread.(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The judging panels for this year's Whitbread awards were announced on Thursday (15 September). The announcement named the judging panels for the categories of the Whitbread First Novel Award,...

Book launched to provide hope for Hurricane Katrina victims.(The Rainbow Book, Life After the Storm)(Brief Article)
September 15, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Xulon Press has announced that it is to publish a book entitled 'The Rainbow Book, Life After the Storm' which will be distributed to the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster free of...

Book imprints sold by Sanctuary.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Printed music publisher The Music Sales Group announced on Thursday (15 September) that it has entered into an agreement to purchase the book imprints of Sanctuary Group, a UK independent...

Chrysalis management to purchase company's book operations.(GBP12.5m )(Brief Article)
September 16, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD In a statement made on Friday (16 September) Chrysalis Group Plc, a UK-based media company, announced that it is to sell its book publishing business for GBP12.5m (USD23m) to a company being...

Random House announces executive changes.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Random House has announced that Mike Broderick, its group sales director, is to retire from the company in June 2006. Broderick has spent 17 years with Random House. As of...

Heneage recommends Ottakar's shareholders accept HMV offer.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD James Heneage, the founder and chief executive of UK bookseller Ottakar's, recommended on Friday (16 September) that shareholders of the company accept HMV's offer of GBP4.40 per share for...

Concerns expressed to OFT over Ottakar's takeover bid.(Office of Fair Trading)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The majority of UK publishers are reportedly opposed to the takeover of Ottakar's by HMV, the owner of the chain of HMV music stores and the Waterstone's bookshops. The music chain trumped a...

Gerry Johnson named MD at Waterstone's.(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD HMV, the owner of the chain of HMV music stores and the Waterstone's bookshops, announced on Friday (16 August) that Gerry Johnson has been appointed as managing director of Waterstone's,...

2006 launch for Irish Book Awards.(Hughes and Hughes)(Brief Article)
September 19, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An Irish Book Awards has been formally launched by bookseller Hughes & Hughes to take place in March 2006. The awards will feature the existing Irish Novel of the Year Award along with new...

Saga book prize awarded to Marina Lewycka.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka has been named as the winner of the Saga award for books of wit and humour written by authors over the age of 50. Lewycka...

General public to gain admittance to Christie's 'Greenway' home.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Greenway, the home of crime novelist Agatha Christie, located on the banks of the River Dart in Devon, England, is to be opened to the general public. Christie purchased Greenway in 1938...

Borders UK announces expansion plans.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bookseller Borders UK is to invest in a series of refurbishments and store openings over a time scale that stretches ahead to 2008. The company has also announced plans to double the size of...

Artists collaborate to produce new Dahl book.(Brief Article)
September 20, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A new book entitled Roald Dahl Songs and Verse is to be published by Jonathan Cape in October after a collaboration between Quentin Blake and 26 artists including Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds...

Thousands raised in auction of TS Eliot's works.(Brief Article)
September 21, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A selection of private and largely unpublished letters and first editions from 20th century poet TS Eliot has been sold at auction for a total of GBP242,652. According to the BBC, the...

US authors to sue over Google Print Library project.
September 21, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Internet company Google Inc is to face legal action in a federal court over its plans to scan copyrighted books for its Google Print Library project. As part of the project, which...

Finalists for FT/Goldman Sachs book award named.(Brief Article)
September 21, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The eight finalists for the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award have now been named and the selection includes Thomas Friedman and James B. Stewart,...

80m books sold in Australia.(Brief Article)
September 21, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD According to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) more than 80m new books were purchased in Australia during the 2003/04 financial year, yielding a value of nearly...

Lewis Carroll's work goes online as part of British Library collection.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures Under Ground has become part of the British Library's Turning the Pages collection of 3D books. The original handwritten manuscript is now...

US author Mailer to receive lifetime achievement award.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The US-based National Book Foundation has revealed that it is to award a lifetime achievement medal to US author Norman Mailer. Mailer, who has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, is...

Ottakar's announces financial results for first half.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based bookseller Ottakar's has reported its interim financial results for the six months ended 30 July 2005. The company reported a 5.7% increase in sales to GBP72.2m, with...

Philip Pullman to give lecture at the University of Newcastle.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
September 22, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The University of Newcastle has revealed that on 27 September 2005 children's novelist Philip Pullman is to give the first Fickling Lecture on Developments in Children's Literature to be held...

US sales of 11m reported for latest Potter book.(Brief Article)
September 23, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in JK Rowling's Harry Potter series, has now recorded US sales of over 11 million since it was published just 10 weeks ago. The...

Q1 fiscal 2006 results announced by Scholastic.
September 23, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher and distributor of children's books Scholastic Corporation (Nasdaq:SCHL) has reported its results for the fiscal 2006 first quarter ended 31 August 2005. The company reported...

Winners of Bookseller Retail Awards announced.(David Roche and David Lund)(Brief Article)
September 23, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Waterstone's former product director David Roche has been named as Random House Group Retail Personality of the Year as part of the first ever UK Bookseller Retail Awards, which were held...

Informa reports six-month financial results.(Informa Group PLC)(Brief Article)
September 23, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Informa Plc, a publisher and conference organiser, has reported a pre-tax profit before exceptionals of GBP42.5m for the first half of the year, up from GBP38.0m, under previous UK GAAP...

Book choice will not be restricted if Ottakar's takeover goes ahead, says HMV's CEO.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD In a statement made on Friday (23 September) HMV's chief executive officer Alan Giles assured consumers that if the company's proposed takeover of Ottakar's goes ahead, the chain will still...

Ha Noi sees release of Vietnamese version of new Harry Potter book.(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Vietnamese-language version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in JK Rowling's series of Harry Potter novels, was released in Vietnam on Saturday (24 September)....

Author reaffirms advice offered in controversial Maori health book.(Peter Caccioppoli)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Peter Caccioppoli, the co-author of 'Maori Health', a book concerning the health of the Maori people in New Zealand, has stood by the advice given in his book that Maoris should smoke, gamble...

Chinese version of classic Canadian novel released.(Anne of Green Gables)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Last week saw the launch of a Chinese version of Anne of Green Gables, the classic Canadian novel. The new version of the book was published to mark the 35th anniversary of the establishment...

Proact IT Group AB wins SEK0.5m database solution order.(ProAct IT Group AB)(Studentlitteratur)(Brief Article)
September 26, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Swedish IT group Proact IT Group AB said on Monday (26 September) that it had received an order for its Ptwo media database solution from the educational publisher Studentlitteratur. The...

Winner of Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award named.
September 27, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The results of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award were announced at an awards ceremony in Cork city on Sunday (25 September) with Yiyun Li taking the EUR50,000 prize money for...

First trading loss reported by Fopp.
September 27, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Fopp, a UK-based music and book retailer, has reported its results for the 17-month period to 30 April 2005. The company announced a pre-tax loss of GBP329,000 for the period, compared...

Jacqueline Wilson joins judging panel for ChildLine Awards.(Brief Article)
September 27, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Jacqueline Wilson OBE, the well-known children's books author, has revealed that she is to join the panel of judges for the BT ChildLine Awards 2006. The awards provide children with the...

Shortlist for New Writing Ventures awards announced.
September 28, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlist for the New Writing Ventures awards for unpublished writers of fiction, literary non-fiction and poetry have been announced by Booktrust and the New Writing Partnership. ...

Children's programme for Guildford Book Festival revealed.(Brief Article)
September 28, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The programme for the 2005 Guildford Book Festival has been released and it features the biggest ever children's programme over the half-term holiday. According to festival organisers,...

Lizzie Dripping author dies aged 71.(children author)(Obituary)
September 28, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD British children's author Helen Cresswell has lost her battle against cancer and passed away at her home in Eakring, Nottinghamshire, on Monday (26 September). Cresswell was the author...

Decline in like-for-like sales reported by HMV Group.(HMV Group Plc)(Brief Article)
September 28, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD UK-based retail group HMV Group Plc (LSE:HMV), owner of the chain of HMV music stores and the Waterstone's bookshops, has announced its sales statistics for the first 21 weeks of its...

California firms sued by publishers for copyright infringement.(copyright infringements)(Brief Article)
September 29, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A copyright infringement suit was filed on Tuesday (27 September) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California by six publishing companies against Cann Copy & Printing and...

Used book sales are on the increase, study shows.
September 29, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD According to the findings of a study released on Wednesday (28 September) from the Book Industry Study Group, a non-profit organisation supported by publishers, used book sales in 2004...

Rights to The Godfather's Revenge acquired by Putnam.(Brief Article)
September 29, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Penguin division Putnam has announced that it has acquired both book and audio rights to The Godfather's Revenge by Mark Winegardner. The rights were acquired from Neil Olson of Donadio...

Authors sell off characters' names for charity.(Brief Article)
September 29, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A fundraising Internet auction held to raise money for the First Amendment Project, a US-based freedom of expression group, has seen bidders pay a total of USD90,000 (GBP51,000) to appear in...

Kate Thompson awarded Guardian children's fiction prize.(The New Policeman is awarded)(Brief Article)
September 30, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The winner of this year's Guardian children's fiction prize has been announced, with Kate Thompson taking the award for her story The New Policeman. The judging panel was chaired by the...

Future of Foyles Bookshop secured for Foyle family.(Brief Article)
September 30, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A stock option scheme is to be set up by the Foyle family as a result of the acquisition of company shares that were previously held by Christina Foyle's executor. The stake consists of 60%...

Uncovered Capote novel to be published by Random House.(Truman Capote's Summer Crossing)(Brief Article)
September 30, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A previously unpublished novel from Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, is to published in October this year by Random House. The novel, entitled Summer Crossing, was...

Classics should remain at the heart of English teaching - claim.(English literature classics)(Brief Article)
September 30, 2005... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD According to the findings of a recent survey conducted by the QCA, the curriculum and exams watchdog for England, English literature classics should remain at the heart of English teaching in...