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Woman's Day Features Librarian Book Recommendations

The first librarian book recommendation is now live as part of the second year of Woman's Day magazine's online book club. June 18, 2004

New York Times to Offer Online Archives From 1800s

ProQuest and NYTimes. June 18, 2004

OverTime Magazine Debuts

Ryan D. June 18, 2004

American Lawyer Media Launches GC New York

American Lawyer Media, Inc. June 18, 2004

Online Games Have Stickiest Websites

A Nielsen//NetRatings report found that online games have the stickiest websites. June 18, 2004

Authors Guild Presses Members to Negotiate Ebook Royalties

The Authors Guild has urged its members to focus on ebook royalties during contract negotiations. June 18, 2004

Consumer Book Sales Up Six Percent in 2003

Driven by gains in religious texts, children's and young adult hardcover, audio books, and ebooks, overall sales in the consumer publishing sector rose 6. June 18, 2004

Romentics To Publish Gay Fiction With Warner Books

Boston-based Romentics announced that it has signed a deal with Warner Books to publish Hot Sauce, the first in the Romentics line of romance novels for gay men. June 11, 2004

Riverhead/Freestyle Line Focuses on Urban Culture

Riverhead/Freestyle, a new line of fiction and nonfiction titles relating to urban culture, is being introduced by Riverhead Trade paperbacks. June 11, 2004

Author of Tibet Mysteries Banned in China

Eliot Pattison, writer of an acclaimed series of mystery books set in Tibet, has so upset authorities in China that they are blocking access to his website within China. June 11, 2004

Marvel Comics to Publish Superhero Novels

Marvel Comics, a comic book publisher and a division of Marvel Enterprises, Inc. June 11, 2004

Life to Return as Weekend Magazine in Newspapers

Time Inc. June 11, 2004

Innova's Launch List Features Lifestyle Titles

Innova is a new publishing company that will offer hardcover books at softcover prices. June 11, 2004

New Travel Magazine Covers Timeshare Property

Bigfish Publications, an Arizona-based specialty magazine publisher, has announced the launch of its newest publication, Hiatus Travel Magazine. June 11, 2004

Clinton's Memoirs Set to Hit Bookstores

Former President Bill Clinton's autobiography, My Life, is set to hit bookstores. June 11, 2004

Consumers Spend More on Children's Books, Buy Less

The children's book industry has faced an uphill battle through much of the past decade, though 2003 results give both publishers and retailers some reasons for optimism, according to Ipsos BookTrends, an ongoing tracking service from Ipsos-Insight, a global marketing research firm. June 11, 2004

17th Annual Bram Stoker Award Winners Announced

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) honored excellence in horror, suspense and dark fantasy by presenting this year's Bram Stoker Awards at its annual banquet ceremony in New York. June 11, 2004

New Site AnimalAttraction.com Combines Pets, Dating

Animal Attraction, an online dating and special events community for pet lovers, has launched following a two-month preview period in which the company saw new members joining from all fifty states. June 11, 2004

Thomson Delmar Learning Acquires NetLearning

Thomson Delmar Learning, a provider of educational resources for lifelong learning and part of The Thomson Corporation, has announced the acquisition of NetLearning, a provider of online training solutions for healthcare professionals working in hospitals. June 4, 2004

New Social Networking Sites Continue to Launch

Is social networking the next big online trend? Some web companies must think so. June 4, 2004

AAP Reports April Book Sale Data

April experienced dramatic losses in three categories overshadowing successful growth in seven categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). June 4, 2004

Scholastic to Publish Children's Book by Diane McWhorter

Scholastic, a publisher and distributor of children's books, announced that it will publish Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter's first book for young readers in October, 2004. June 4, 2004

Q Television Will Offer Gay and Lesbian Programming

Q Television Network, headquartered in California, has announced it will launch a subscriber channel for the gay and lesbian community in July 2004. June 4, 2004

Producers Guild of America Debuts New Website

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) has announced the relaunch of its New Media Council website. June 4, 2004

G.P. Taylor Signs Book Deal with Penguin Group

Bestselling vicar-turned-author, G. June 4, 2004