by Cassandra Drudi

Quillblog: The Book

Just think -- one day, you could be reading this blog in book form. Wired reports today that "Blurb.com, a self-publishing startup, will invite 600 bloggers this week to test out its new service by ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Sci-fi groping brouhaha

By Cassandra Drudi

Harlan Ellison brought some much-needed scandale to the Hugos when he groped fellow sci-fi scribe Connie Willis and kissed her for good measure when accepting his Special Committee Award this week. He also put the ... Read More »

August 30, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Grass opts for openness

By Cassandra Drudi

Yahoo! News is carrying a Reuters story today reporting that Günter Grass is getting a pat on the back from the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem for his decision "to waive restrictions on his Nazi ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Gay book yanked from high-school reading list

By Cassandra Drudi

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported today on the removal of a gay-themed book from a Webster, N.Y. high-school summer reading list and the author's subsequent accusation that the Webster Central School District officials are ... Read More »

August 29, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Snakes on our blog

By Cassandra Drudi

PW Daily has a story about Sterling Publishers' cashing in on the marketing behemoth that is Snakes on a Plane by churning out -- wait for it -- Snakes on a Sudoku. According to the ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Could a computer write this blog?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Financial Times reported last week that a U.S. news service has designed computer programs to write stories for them. "Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

By Cassandra Drudi

Literary Saloon links to a VietNamNet Bridge story on the difficulties Vietnamese publishers face. Vietnam has been tightening control over copyrights in the wake of the ratification of the Bern Convention for Literary and Artistic ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins gets one up on Google

By Cassandra Drudi

The googlewatch blog is reporting today that "publishers who want to make their books searchable online" now have a non-Google option to turn to. LibreDigital, " a division of Newstand, which provides exact digital duplicates ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins continues with Londonstani blitz

By Cassandra Drudi

The Londonstani promotional juggernaut thunders onward and, according to a Globe and Mail story, has now rolled into a couple of GTA theatres. The appearance of Londonstani's book trailer at "the Albion in Etobicoke and ... Read More »

August 16, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

Book character trumps actually important person

By Cassandra Drudi

The Guardian features a snippet today that points out the power of the book – or, rather, the power of the Potter. "More Americans know who Harry Potter is than can name Tony Blair, according ... Read More »

August 16, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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