This is page 59 of the book publishing news archives.

RIOT Media Targets Tween Market (2004-04-16): RIOT Media, a new company that will develop, produce and market multi-platform entertainment programming and media products for tween boys, has launched with RIOT, its flagship branded property.

Book Sense Announces Best Books From First Five Years (2004-04-16): Book Sense has announced the "Best Books: The Best of Book Sense From the First Five Years.

2003 Book Publishing Net Sales Rise (2004-04-09): Net sales for the entire United States publishing industry are estimated to have increased by 4.

Pine, Witherspoon and Carlisle Form InkWell Management (2004-04-02): Three prominent New York-based independent literary agencies, Arthur Pine Associates, Witherspoon Associates, and Carlisle & Company, have formed a new literary management company, InkWell Management.

Disney To Make Films Based On Judy Blume Books (2004-04-02): Author Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Blubber, Superfudge, and Deenie), filmmaker Lawrence Blume, and producer Jane Startz have entered into a multi-picture deal with The Walt Disney Studios to develop and produce films based on Judy Blume's books for young people, it was announced by Nina Jacobson, president of the Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.

1stBooks Becomes AuthorHouse (2004-04-02): Print-on-demand (POD) publisher 1stBooks announced that it is changing its name to AuthorHouse.

Jack Welch to Publish Business Book with HarperCollins (2004-03-19): HarperCollins Publishers announced that it has acquired world rights to publish Winning, a business how-to book by Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric.

PennWell Announces Oil & Gas Financial Journal (2004-03-12): PennWell Corporation, publisher of Oil & Gas Journal, Offshore and Oil, Gas & Petrochem Equipment, has announced the launch of a new publication called Oil & Gas Financial Journal (OGFJ).

MySQL AB and Pearson Education Launch MySQL Press (2004-03-05): MySQL AB, developer of the popular MySQL open source database, and Pearson Education, a division of Pearson plc, announced the launch of MySQL Press, an exclusive publisher of MySQL AB-authorized technology information books and materials.

Abebooks.com Launches Spanish Books Section (2004-03-05): Abebooks, an online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books, has launched Libros en Espanol, a new area on Abebooks.

Borders Announces 2003 Original Voices Award Winners (2004-02-27): Borders Group has announced the winners of the seventh annual Borders Original Voices Awards.

Alacritude, eLibrary Relaunch as HighBeam.com (2004-02-20): Alacritude announced that it has changed its name to HighBeam Research, and has introduced the company�s new flagship online research service, HighBeam Research.

HarperCollins Signs Mia Hamm to Picture Book Deal (2004-02-20): HarperCollins Children's Books announced that it has signed soccer star Mia Hamm for a picture book titled Winners Never Quit! (on sale: August 1, 2004).

Ripplewood and ZelnickMedia Acquire Time Life (2004-02-13): Time Inc.

Publishers Find Some Gains in December (2004-02-06): According to data from the Association of American Publishers, publishers have rung in the New Year with fewer losses and more gains in domestic, as well as elementary and high school publishing sales for December.

James Carville to Publish Children's Book With Simon & Schuster (2004-01-30): Anne Schwartz Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, has announced plans to publish political consultant and New York Times bestselling author James Carville's first picture book, written with award-winning children's book author Patricia C.

Merriam-Webster Announces 2003 Words of the Year (2004-01-23): Merriam-Webster Inc.

DiCamillo, Gerstein Win Newbery, Caldecott Medals (2004-01-23): Kate DiCamillo, author of The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering, and Mordicai Gerstein, illustrator and author of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, are the 2004 winners of the John Newbery and Randolph Caldecott medals, the most prestigious awards in children's literature.

Scholastic Acquires P.B. Kerr's New Children's Trilogy (2004-01-02): Scholastic US and Scholastic UK have announced that the company has acquired the worldwide English language publishing rights for the first three novels of P.

Reader's Digest Launches Readers' Choice Awards (2004-01-02): James Patterson and Ann Rule won the 2003 Readers' Choice Awards from Reader's Digest.