Publishers Weekly 04/07/2003 Table of Contents

PWK - April 07, 2003

Features

Puppies And Horses And Cats, Oh My!
If the business of book publishing has its high points and low points, the category of pets and animals surely is among the former.

Audio

Speaking of Poetry

Audio Bits

Book News

Battle of the Biographies

Bookselling

Children's Books

Licensing

Licensing Hotline

News

Chain Sales Rose 3.5% in 2002, to $7.80 Billion
Correction

Acquisition

West Buys Andrews Publication

Bad News

Sales Down, Forecast Lower at Borders

Behind the Bestsellers

Fiction Trades Up
Spaces Trades Is Up

BookTelevision

Canadian Channel Features All Books, All the Time

Distribution

AMS Will Close Aspen Unit

Downsizing

More Cuts at North-South

Hot Deals

Market Conditions

Soft Funding Leads to Staff Reductions at WRC Media

Market Watch

Industry Stocks: March Performances

Notes from the 10-k

Cuts in Jobs, Costs Shrink Losses at B&N.com

Obituary

Mendez-Shapiro

Partnering

Borders Group Takes Minority Stake in Echo

Results 2002

Varsity Moves into the Black

Retailing

Bookstore Sales Up 3% in January

Small Press

NBA Winner Boosts Copper Canyon Press

Start-up

Vertical Offers Japanese Lit Hits in English

Strategy

Red Wheel Joins Bookpeople
Rizzoli Focus on Publishing

The New Old List

Scores of Random Authors Headed to Penguin

Wrong Note

Musicland on the Block

PW Forecasts

Nonfiction

PW Interview

Paul Elie: Reading Books With Our Lives