by Scott MacDonald

Men scorn free books

In a park near his home in central London, Ian McEwan lent credence to a theory as old as the world's first English-language novel, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. This theory holds that women, on average, read ... Read More »

September 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Google introduces new limits to its online book project

By Scott MacDonald

An article on Wired.com presents arguments both for and against Google's plan to create digital copies of millions of books from the libraries of Stanford, Michigan, Harvard, and Oxford universities, as well as the New ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian literary fiction: undersold and under-publicized

By Scott MacDonald

The Globe and Mail's books editor, Martin Levin, outlines the predicament surrounding Canadian literary fiction: under-publicized and therefore undersold. The roots of the publicity problem, he claims, are in the ever-decreasing number of Canadian book-talk ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Bloomsbury to invest in U.S. expansion

By Scott MacDonald

Expecting a reported surplus of approximately £50-million ($107-million CAD) by the end of this year, Bloomsbury hopes to reinvest the funds into U.S. expansion, a priority in recent years for the British publisher. Among Bloomsbury's ... Read More »

September 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Next up: a cure for gullibility

By Scott MacDonald

In an astonishing case, a medical self-help book by a former used-car salesman with no medical training and a long list of fraud charges is holding a high position on North American bestsellers lists, including ... Read More »

September 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Curious George escapes the Nazis

By Scott MacDonald

As we and the various children in our lives look forward to the release of new productions in the Curious George franchise – an animated film featuring the voice of Will Ferrell and a new ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

Dude, where's my Vasily?

By Scott MacDonald

Vanessa Thorpe of The Observer reports on another potentially troubling trend: the modification and modernization of long and otherwise difficult books. Reworked titles include a serialized but otherwise unmodified version of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Genre-crossing inflames critics

By Scott MacDonald

Two stories report on literary adaptations: from film versions of books to the much stranger phenomenon of video-game novels.In the Washington Post, film critic Stephen Hunter discusses the merits and pitfalls of book-to-film adaptations from ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The Paris Review undergoes restructuring

By Scott MacDonald

Renowned for its support of emerging writers, one of America's most prestigious literary journals, The Paris Review, has undergone a facelift. Under the new command of Philip Gourevitch, a non-fiction author and writer for The ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Greasing the hype machine

By Scott MacDonald

A hot topic of conversation in the online literary community is the commercial success of The Traveler, an ambiguously fictional first novel written by the strangely pseudonymed John Twelve Hawks. Climbing the New York Times ... Read More »

September 12, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

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Men scorn free books

Google introduces new limits to its online book project

Canadian literary fiction: undersold and under-publicized

Bloomsbury to invest in U.S. expansion

Next up: a cure for gullibility

Curious George escapes the Nazis

Dude, where's my Vasily?

Genre-crossing inflames critics

The Paris Review undergoes restructuring

Greasing the hype machine

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