News: Publishing

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- Perillo Tours, America's leader in tourism to Italy since 1945, today announced the release of their newest Italy and Hawaii vacation brochures for 2008 offering customers a variety of scenic and thrilling vacations to some of the most inspiring places in Italy and Hawaii.

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii -- Mundus Institute of Honaunau, Hawaii, and China National Tourism Administration have agreed to launch a joint venture to utilize Mundus educational software, textbooks, and curricula in colleges, universities, and training centers throughout China. The cooperation agreement will be formally signed at a public ceremony to be held in Beijing, China on November 7. The announcement was made by Dennis Foster, chairman of Mundus Institute.

WAYNE, N.J. -- The Ballantine Corporation, a full-service direct mail production company based in New Jersey, is excited to announce a new client service - personal URLs; clients have reported success. A recent success story involves The Blood-Horse magazine, a publication devoted to international thoroughbred racing and breeding.

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Manga have become popular in the U.S. and many translated Manga books are on the shelves in major book stores. It's one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. publishing industry. Orange Lighthouse, Inc. has just launched Ad-Manga.us as a U.S. site of Ad-Manga.com to offer Manga contents for advertising, to U.S. companies.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The year 1982 had a lot of milestones: Sony introduced the first compact disc, a little alien stole our hearts and imaginations with E.T. and, the Valley's own Trends Magazine released its first issue. Trends, the oldest, continuously published society, philanthropy and lifestyle publication, is celebrating its silver anniversary with events all year long.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- U.S. advertisers now have access to a high quality business daily in Delhi and Mumbai due to the expanded portfolio of Riverside Media Sales / Global Media Network, Inc., a leading provider of global media services. Riverside Media, the U.S. Advertising Representative for HT Media Limited, New Delhi, is pleased to announce the addition of HT's newly launched business daily "MINT," published in association with the Wall Street Journal.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Buying and servicing a boat has become a much easier task for consumers around the country, thanks to Boating Industry magazine's second annual Top 100 Dealers, a ranking of an incredibly powerful group of marine dealers that generated more than $2.88 billion in retail sales, or nearly 8 percent of the entire $37 billion marine market.

ASHBURN, Va. -- Core Concepts, LLC, a corporate development organization located in Northern Virginia and South West Florida since 2002, announced today the launch of Core Concepts Publishing in conjunction with their first book publication, 4 Circles of Good Business, written by Christopher Novak of Marcellus, New York (ISBN 0-9788668-0-0).

SPOKANE, Wash. -- At all levels of education, students with learning disabilities are not only affected by the consequences of high-stakes testing, but also daily work book and lesson plan preparation.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Dee Dee Phelps, author of "Vinyl Highway," singing as Dick and Dee Dee in the Sixties was introduced to a sold out audience by Book Publicists of Southern California founder Irwin Zucker, with comedian Fred Travalena and game show host Wink Martindale, at the 12th Annual IRWIN Awards dinner and program for Book Publicists of Southern California on October 11th in Studio City, California.

VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada -- 'Take Your Business to the Next Level' (ISBN: 0968440150), released by Pareto Systems, is not just another book that lectures about business strategy; it provides useful, how-to instruction to make it happen.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- PhotoBook Press knows we all have a book in us and announces a great new way to have this dream realized - The Book in Me Contest. PhotoBook Press, custom publisher of fine photographic memoirs, announces the contest for everyone with a great photo book idea, who always wanted a professionally printed book of their favorite, most meaningful photographs. The contest is designed to show how rewarding it is to tell a story using historical photographs or modern digital images AND how easy it is to create a beautiful book to document and share that story.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Everyone can appreciate a good T-shirt and most people like to stay informed regarding the news and current events. Therefore it's no wonder why a project that combines the two has taken the world by storm. Based out of Stockholm, Sweden uniquely designed T-shirts are being shipped out to all four corners of the Earth.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Penny Webster, author of "Allergy Free For All Ages: Milk-free, Egg-free, Nut-free Recipes" offering safe food alternatives for severely allergic kids and adults that are delicious enough to satisfy the whole family, today announced that millions of individuals are now living on restrictive diets due to food allergies or intolerance.