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Nixon biographer gets 6 to 8 6 1/2 years for fraud

From The Globe and Mail: Conrad Black will be sentenced to between 6.5 and 8.1 years in prison, the judge presiding over the case said Monday. Judge Amy St. Eve said she is considering a ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Stop reading this blog, says Doris Lessing

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Guardian: The inanities of the internet have seduced a generation, and we live in a fragmenting culture where people read nothing and know nothing of the world, the new Nobel laureate novelist Doris ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

Bookmarks – Paddington the Bear in jail, comic books in Kandahar, bibles in China, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Paddington the Bear arrested on immigration charges on 50th anniversary (CBC.ca) Comic books handed out in Kandahar to teach kids about human rights (The Canadian Press) Speaking of human rights, China to ... Read More »

December 10, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Indigo’s Love of Reading: The Motion Picture

By Scott MacDonald

Many of you faithful industry watchers have probably already heard tell of the short documentary that Indigo CEO Heather Reisman commissioned earlier this year about the "crisis" in school libraries. It's called Writing on the ... Read More »

December 7, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Great moments in disappointment

By Scott MacDonald

The Literary Review of Canada has asked several of their contributors “ including Marian Botsford Fraser, Rex Murphy, Janice Gross Stein, and Andrew Potter “ to weigh-in on the "great" books they were most let ... Read More »

December 7, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

$3 million for Karl Rove’s memoirs?

By Nathan Whitlock

Maybe, according to the New York Post: Karl Rove, the controversial and long-time senior adviser to President George W. Bush, is shopping a memoir in an auction that will kick off today and likely result ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

French erotica … at the library

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Canadian Press: Ribald and X-rated, a new exhibit at France's national library is banned to anyone under 16. The exhibit that opened this week offers a peek at France's long-secret library of libido, ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

The Golden Compass gets yanked in Calgary, too

By Nathan Whitlock

And on it goes: another school board has pulled Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass from its shelves following a parental complaint “ this despite the fact that the book was published more than 10 years ... Read More »

December 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

All I want for Christmas is a new job

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Sales Coordinator, Marketing - The University of Toronto Press (Toronto, ON) Managing Editor - Nimbus Publishing (Halifax, NS) Rights Manager - Kids Can Press (Toronto, ON) Sales/Publicity & Administrative ... Read More »

December 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Text-message lit a hit in Japan

By Stuart Woods

The latest news from the annals of text-message lit comes from Japan, where cell-phone novels “ books composed on a cell phone's cramped keyboard and consumed on its tiny screen “ are producing bestsellers, emoticons ... Read More »

December 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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