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Twelve must-haves for booksellers

Market research firm Nielsen just released a list of the top 12 books that booksellers "cannot afford not to stock." The U.K.'s Telegraph notes that the works of Jane Austen, The Lord of the Rings ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

The author and the book designer “ BFF?

By Sara Forsyth

New York Times columnist Steven Heller recently profiled three author/designer teams who've had the rare opportunity to work with each other for over a decade. Heller's examples of "enduring chemistry" are Philip Roth and Milton ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Tories cancel cultural travel grants

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Toronto Star: The federal government has scrapped a travel assistance program to promote Canadian culture abroad, suggesting it catered to fringe groups, the well-off and left-wingers. The decision yesterday to cancel the $4.7 ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Orwell, the blogger (Time) Hugo Awards awarded “ Chabon wins the big one (The Hugo Awards) China's publishing industry shuts down during Olympics (The New York Times) A pair of Canadians (including ... Read More »

August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

The Gargoyle‘s “positive” reviews

By Scott MacDonald

Both the Winnipeg Free Press and the Vancouver Sun ran stories this week claiming that the early reviews of Andrew Davidson's uber-hyped The Gargoyle are mostly raves, but did they really read those reviews? From ... Read More »

August 8, 2008

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid: smart dumplings

By Sara Forsyth

Those pesky Olympics begin tomorrow, and Slate has reviewed a plethora of books about China in the spirit of the games (though many of them are about Mao), including Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and ... Read More »

August 7, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Lessons from Jeff Bezos

By Sara Forsyth

The McSweeney's blog recently posted a "short imagined monologue" from the mind of Jeff Bezos (as imagined by contributor Evan Johnston). We meet Bezos in the waiting room at his doctor's office, where he's waiting ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Rare book thieves in India

By Sara Forsyth

The National Library of India has created a five-person committee to investigate charges that rare books and manuscripts are missing from their collection. The Hindu, India's national newspaper, reports that the Ministry of Cultural Affairs ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Begging for blurbs

By Sara Forsyth

Vogue contributing editor Rebecca Johnson chronicles the agony of seeking out "blurbs" for her first novel, And Sometimes Why, on Salon.com. Johnson, obviously a well-connected woman, falls short when her editor presses her to find ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Best book ads ever?

By Sara Forsyth

Quillblog recently stumbled across a New York Times slide show of book advertisements from their so-called "Golden Age," 1962-1973. Why those dates? The books - and the ads for them - were terrific: fresh, pushy, ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book culture

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