Book news

Daily links round-up: Google deal aftermath, Lindle lives, and more

The rejected Google deal settlement: what does the rejection really mean? One day after Amazon cut off Lindle's access to its e-book databases, the e-book lender is back up and running Nino Ricci's concern for ... Read More »

March 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Indigo announces new president and CFO

By Sue Carter

Indigo Books & Music has announced major changes in its senior ranks. Effective April 1, current president Joel Silver, a well-known figure in Canadian publishing circles, will be appointed to Indigo's board of directors. Silver ... Read More »

March 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Judge rejects Google Book Settlement

By Steven W. Beattie

Adding another chapter to the ongoing (not to say epic) saga of Google's attempt to build the world's largest digital library, Judge Denny Chin has rejected the settlement that would have granted the company the ... Read More »

March 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Daily links round-up: e-reader wars, Bingo, and more

By Sue Carter

Grab a sleeping bag and get in line, the iPad 2 is officially available in Canada on March 25 Amazon shuts down Kindle-lending community website Lendle.me Meanwhile, Apple and Microsoft are playing patent fisticuffs with ... Read More »

March 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

J.D. Salinger slept here

By Steven W. Beattie

The New York Times has an article about a creative writing scholarship given out to students at Ursinus College, just outside of Philadelphia. The school is the alma mater of J.D. Salinger, and the initial ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian literary event round-up, March 18-24

By Sue Carter

Here are just a few literary events happening across the country in the next week: Twelve top poets compete in the Toronto Poetry Slam Semifinals, March 19 at the Drake Hotel (7 p.m., $5) Poet ... Read More »

March 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Lochhead, 1922-2011

By Natalie Samson

Douglas Lochhead, the poet laureate of Sackville, New Brunswick, died Tuesday in a Westmorland-area nursing home. He was 88. Lochhead was named the first-ever lifetime poet laureate for the town in 2002. From Lochhead's obituary ... Read More »

March 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily links round-up: Free Kindles, James Frey, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Robert Fulford on the "long service in the trench warfare of editing" of Oxford University Press's William Toye The Association of American Publishers reports a staggering 116 per cent ... Read More »

March 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Donoghue, Winter make Orange Prize longlist

By Natalie Samson

A pair of Canadians are among the 20 women on the 16th annual Orange Prize for Fiction longlist. Emma Donoghue (Room) and Kathleen Winter (Annabel) are both in contention for the book award, which recognizes ... Read More »

March 16, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Salman Rushdie to write Showtime drama

By Sue Carter

Salman Rushdie is writing a script for U.S. TV network Showtime (Dexter, Nurse Jackie). According to the Guardian, Rushdie's Next People will explore the U.S. at a time of rapid change, taking in politics, sex, ... Read More »

March 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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