More Schedule Notes There may not be any more issues of Lunch Deluxe this week — it depends on our schedule, and whether anything interesting happens. If not, we’ll back with the weekly deal round-up. Google x2 Widely featured today is the news that Google chose to publicize: they now let Google Book Search visitors […]
Archives for August 2006
Lunch for Tuesday, August 29
Schedule Lunch will be late tomorrow, but there should be news up at the PublishersMarketplace.com home page if you check in. BN Gets Subpoena on Stock Options Barnes & Noble disclosed in an SEC filing that on Friday it received a subpoena from the US District Attorney, seeking documents related to the company’s stock-options practices. […]
Lunch for Monday, August 28
Book and Arts Veterans to Leave Dallas Paper Just as we round-up the semi-annual celebrations of forthcoming fall books from a variety of newspapers comes disturbing news about the fragile status of book coverage as newspaper owners wrestle with what they want to be in the internet era. Longtime Dallas Morning News book critic Jerome […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, August 28
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time […]
Lunch for Thursday, August 24
Please Note No Lunch tomorrow. We’ll be back on Monday. Falling for… It’s time for the fall previews. The AP leads with religion in politics (which always makes a good wire service theme), including Senator John Danforth ‘s Faith and Politics, Mel White’s Religion Gone Bad, Dan Gilgoff’s The Jesus Machine, Richard Dawkins’ The God […]
Lunch for Wednesday, August 23
Borders’ Weakness on Target Borders turned in the poor second quarter performance they warned of in July, but at least the company was at the better end of their lowered expectations. Superstore sales of $600 million were down 5.3 percent on a comparable-store basis, even as remodeled stores are performing better than other outlets. Waldenbooks […]