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YARDLEY, PA (MARKET WIRE) Journal Register Company (the "Company") (PINKSHEETS: JRCO) noted that Editor & Publisher magazine's online edition erroneously reported that The New Haven Register and The Macomb Daily were part of the planned sale of publications by the Company. The Company yesterday had issued a press release announcing that it had begun the sale process for certain of its publications, but did not identify the publications. To be clear, The New Haven Register and The Macomb Daily are not for sale. The article also erroneously indicated that the Company is in default on its loans, when in fact the

AP - "Just After Sunset" (Scribner, 367 pages, $28), by Stephen King: For a generation, we have associated Stephen King with darkness, or at least with an absence of light. He is the national summoner of darker instincts, darker thoughts, darker realities bleeding into our own.

Reuters - In "Searching for Schindler" Australian author Thomas Keneally recalls how he came to write the award-winning novel "Schindler's Ark," which reached global fame through Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning adaptation.

AP - Vietnam-era radical Bill Ayers said Friday that he doesn't know president-elect Barack Obama any better than "thousands of other Chicagoans" and that the two never talked about Ayers' anti-war activities. In a television interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," the college professor disputed the contention that in the new afterword of a paperback edition of his 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" he describes himself and Obama as "family friends."

AP - In the 1960s, Irving Wallace wrote a novel called "The Man," in which the sudden deaths of the president, vice president and speaker of the House bring to power a most unlikely occupant of the Oval office: Sen. Douglas Dillman ? a black man.

The Associated Press reports that the U.S. News and World report is going to cut back on the number of issues it publishes. They will be switching to monthly and focus more on the website. The Washington Post, citing unnamed staffers briefed on the decision, said the magazine's print edition will focus on popular consumer guides such as its annual ranking of colleges, while its Web site will offer expanded features. U.S. News spokeswoman Liz Putze declined comment to The Associated Press. The magazine is owned by publisher and real estate developer Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The magazine, which had average circulation of 1.8 million during the first half of the year, announced in June that it planned to change from weekly to biweekly publication. This news comes not too longer after the Christian Science Monitor announced plans to also move to a monthly print cycle and focus more on its news website. Permalink | Archives | News Feeds