by Eric Emin Wood

In honour of St. Patrick’s Day…

The author as drunken lout is hardly groundbreaking, but it's rare to unearth the sort of apology Edgar Allen Poe offered his publishers J. and H.G. Langley for his mint julep-fuelled behaviour in 1842: Will you be so ... Read More »

March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The Big Read

By Eric Emin Wood

Three years after its launch, New York City's the Big Read (itself a spawn of "What If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," launched 10 years ago) has spawned smaller, community-based undertakings, with thousands ... Read More »

March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Good news from HarperCollins?

By Eric Emin Wood

While many American houses are shuttering their specialty divisions and laying off employees, HarperCollins is bucking its own trend by creating a new division. It Books will focus on "pop culture, sports, style and content derived ... Read More »

March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Shopping lists, the iPhone Kindle app, and the $1-million French novel

By Eric Emin Wood

For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Killing trees en route to a digital future

By Eric Emin Wood

In its mad quest to digitize every book ever written, Google has taken to mounting one of the widest-reaching print ad campaigns in history. As part of its class action settlement (which we blogged about ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Now playing on an iPhone near you…

By Eric Emin Wood

Turns out the fastest growing category on Apple's iTunes app store isn't games or music, but books. At least, in terms of "unique applications" (i.e. individual titles). As the O'Reilly Radar points out, "releasing an e-book ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Signs the world is coming to an end, #10,135

By Eric Emin Wood

One of the most tragic aspects of the publishing industry is recognizing the years of labour, research, networking, and luck that go into getting something onto shelves “ and then watching an idiot like this ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Australia’s Christopher Paolini

By Eric Emin Wood

Books written by teenage authors are nothing new, of course (S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Gordon Korman's This Can't Be Happening At McDonald Hall come to mind), but it's still rare to see an entire ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The battle over robot toothbrushes

By Eric Emin Wood

Two weeks ago we blogged about Scholastic's controversial misuse of its book clubs, but it would appear that was a mere footnote compared to the uproar generated by the company's Klutz division, which has published ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Interview: Tony Burgess talks about Pontypool

By Eric Emin Wood

Open Book Toronto has posted this video interview with Ontario author Tony Burgess, whose 1998 novel, Pontypool Changes Everything, was recently turned into a movie. Look for a story on Pontypool director Bruce McDonald - and his love ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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