Publishers Weekly 04/05/2004 Table of Contents

PWK - April 05, 2004

Features

Casting a Wider Spell
SF/fantasy players discuss new and better ways of hooking readers—tweaking format, genre, subject.

Audio

Merchandising 101
The Fab One

BEA

Save the Dates

Book News

The Clarke Factor

Leave It to Walker

Reviving the First Celebrity Chef

Bookselling

A Profitable Arrangement

Synergy

Indie Checks Into Library's Old Location

Children's Books

Celebrating the Art of William Steig

Children's Bookbag

School Dons Author's Name
A Crazy Kind of Event
Faeries, Goblins and Other Magical Creatures
Golden Kite Winners Announced

Part of a Global Plan

Disney Brings Comics Series to U.S.

News

Book Sales Rose 4% in 2003, to $23 Billion
Random House Results Skewed by Currency Changes

Acquisition

Holtzbrinck to Buy Roaring Brook Press

Behind the Bestsellers

Business

Entrepreneur Press Joins M-H Trade

Culture Clash

Viz Manga Pulled from Some Scholastic Fairs

Expanding

New Fees, Initiatives From Abebooks.com
Baker Book Growth Prompts Name Change

Finance

MediaBay Restructuring Debt

Hot Deals

Market Watch

Industry Stocks: March Performances

National Poetry Month

Academy Celebrates Fiscal Surplus

Opportunity

Basic to Rush Gay Marriage Book

Package This

Melcher Media Launches Its Own List

Results 2003

Book Sales Hit $117 Million at Hastings
Bloomsbury Publishing On the Up and Up

Sudden Change

Avalon's Ortenberg Resigns

Tools

NYU Indie Seminar Set

Waiting

Howard Publishing Delays Warren Title

PW Forecasts

Fiction

Mistress of the Southern Vampire Romantic Mystery

Nonfiction

From Meet the Press to Meet the Parent

PW Interview

Crossings Then and Now