News

• Amazon.com And The New York Times Settle Lawsuit

  Amazon.com and The New York Times have settled a lawsuit over the online bookseller’s references to the Times’s Best Sellers list as part of Amazon.com’s

• Short Cuts

  Hanover Direct Inc., Weehawken, NJ, has promoted Donn Willson to the position of president of International Male. He had been acting president since 1998.Abacus

• Correction

  A story in yesterday’s Newsline, “Millard Study Shows E-Commerce DMers to Grow 150%,” contained an inaccuracy about business-to-business direct marketers.

• Huse, Retired President of MASA, Dies

  Robert M. Huse, retired president of the Mail Advertising Service Association, died at home in Arlington, VA, on July 25 after a lengthy illness. He was

• Banta Posts Lower 2Q Earnings As Expected

  Banta Corp., Menasha, WI, earned a net income of $11.8 million, or 43 cents diluted earning per share, for the second quarter of 1999, before the effects

• DIRECT Listline

  International Book Buyers This is a 589,261-name master file. It contains the names of people who buy books about their hobbies such as home arts, home

• USPS Study Proves DMers Don’t Pollute

  The U.S. Postal Service recently released the results of an 11-month old report that pegged the environmental cost of commercial and nonprofit Standard

• Newsprint Price Hike Could Spill Over to Catalogs

  The cost of printing a catalog on newsprint is expected to go up about 10% later this year, the result of an October hike in the price of newsprint planned

• Direct Mail to Grow 4% This Year: McCann-Erickson

  Direct mail expenditures will grow by about 4% to top $41 billion in 1999, predicted Robert J. Coen, senior vice president and director of forecasting

• Appropriations Bill Cuts Federal Funding for USPS

  The U.S. Postal Service, which is expected to post a $200 million profit in September when its fiscal year ends, stands to lose $6.7 million in federal