Viz Announces New Manga Series for First Quarter 2007 (Anime News Network) San Francisco, CA, January 25, 2007 ? VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced the release of three new manga series for the first quarter of 2007. These releases include INUBAKA: CRAZY FOR DOGS and two new romantic shôjo series, BACKSTAGE PRINCE and GENTLEMEN'S ALLIANCE+....more...EVOLUTION: Local operation has grown from book publisher to data-mining hub (Pioneer Press) It was either his first or second day on the job at the old West Publishing 12 years ago that software engineer Terry Enockson remembers hearing the company announce it was for sale....more... IP&R's goPROTO Division Offers Cutting-Edge Product Design (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SAN FRANCISCO----Inventors' Publishing & Research, , a rapidly growing product development and invention licensing firm, now offers industrial design services through its goPROTO Division....more... Community Briefs (Ukiah Daily Journal) On Tuesday, January 30 at 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall, 110 Feliz Creek Road, Hopland, join the small house movement and hear author Shay Salomon talk about examples from his book "Little House on a Small Planet."...more... Collaboration Book Features Bay Area Companies (CBS 5 Bay Area) DreamWorks Animation is one of two Bay Area visual effects companies featured in a new business book called The Culture of Collaboration: Maximizing Time, Talent and Tools to Create Value in the Global Economy by Evan Rosen....more... Partial Bailout Offered in Book Bankruptcy (New York Times) Small publishers left reeling by the major book wholesaler Advanced Marketing Services? bankruptcy filing last month received a rare bit of good news yesterday....more... Google Book Search: Buy your books by the chapter (Ars Technica) Google's book scanning and indexing program has been under way for several years, and the company is nearly ready to roll out an "a la carte" sales model that will let people buy their books in pieces. ...more... Davos: Elite Meet or Delete? (Wired News) The next best thing to an invitation to the World Economic Forum in Davos is an invitation to one of its posh cocktail parties. Alorie Gilbert reports from Davos, Switzerland. ...more... Let's Find the Next 60-Bagger (The Motley Fool) The best investments don't follow a straight line to spectacular returns. ...more... |