by Stuart Woods

Big deal for small (U.S.) publishers

U.S. firm Perseus Books Group is offering small publishers a chance to access digital book technology with the launch of a new service. The New York Times reports: The new service, called Constellation, will allow ... Read More »

September 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Random House blacklisted for The Jewel of Medina

By Stuart Woods

The controversy surrounding Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina “ which Random House U.S. decided to pull earlier this month, citing fears of terroristic violence “ continues to grow. Two weeks ago, none other ... Read More »

August 29, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Sask. librarian hits the slammer

By Stuart Woods

Contemplating a life in crime? Well, in terms of graft, the prim world of library management is wide open “ or is it? On Wednesday, a Saskatoon judge sentenced Bruce David Cameron to two years ... Read More »

August 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Punctuation cage match

By Stuart Woods

Herman Melville was for them; Raymond Chandler was against. Donald Barthelme thought they were ugly as a tick on a dog's belly. His contemporary, Kurt Vonnegut, called them transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. Yet another ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Random House pushes the envelope, then pulls back

By Stuart Woods

Presumably, the U.K. arm of Random House Children's Books knew what it was getting into when it published the latest children's novel by Jacqueline Wilson, titled My Sister Jodie, in which one of the characters ... Read More »

August 22, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Nicole Rycroft of Markets Initiative busted in Beijing

By Stuart Woods

Nicole Rycroft, the executive director of Markets Initiative, has been arrested in Beijing for her part in a pro-Tibet demonstration. According to her spokesperson, Bruce Walsh, Rycroft scaled a wall near the China Central Television ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The new sins of book reviewing

By Stuart Woods

In their ongoing war against cliche, the folks at Paper Cuts, the New York Times book blog, have come up with a list of the seven deadly words of book reviewing “ words that aren't ... Read More »

March 26, 2008

Malcolm Gladwell: for or against?

By Stuart Woods

A mild controversy may be brewing around Malcolm Gladwell, the Canadian journalist and bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, and a New Yorker staff writer. The dispute arose after The New Republic's cantankerous ... Read More »

March 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Arthur C. Clarke R.I.P.

By Stuart Woods

Sci-fi author and futurist Sir Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka. Author of more than 100 books, of which 2001: A Space Odyssey is the ... Read More »

March 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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