Better Quarter for Harlequin Both Torstar and subsidiary Harlequin have turned in a badly-needed quarter of improved performance, with both sales and profits rising. At Harlequin, sales of $124.5 million (CA) were up $6.2 million from a year ago, with most of the gain due to currency exchange, and with operating profit of $19.1 million in the first quarter of 2007, up $4.0 million from the same period last year. The biggest improvement came in North American retail sales, while direct mail sales declined and overseas results were flat, “with improved results in the Nordic group and Germany offset by […]
Archives for May 2007
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Jackson Goes Studio Shopping for Lovely Bones Director Peter Jackson has gone out to potential studio partners with his co-written screenplay for an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s THE LOVELY BONES. He acquired rights from Film Four in 2004, and has said that the film would be his next project. Variety Amazon Has Hosseini Exclusives Amazon is offering an exclusive two-page excerpt from Khaled Hosseini’s forthcoming A THOUSAND SUNS (publishing on May 22), along with a podcast interview with the author. Of more interest, the site has also posted 15 short pre-publication reviews after querying their top 100 reviewers in early […]