Book news

Pro-Israeli groups slam award-winning novel as being “vehemently anti-Israel”

Four years after the Toronto District School Board limited access to Deborah Ellis's book Three Wishes, which was published by Groundwood Books and featured interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children about the ongoing conflict in ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Apple iBookstore’s prices shoot up … maybe

By Steven W. Beattie

Remember the AppAdvice post that Quillblog pointed to last week about the pricing of e-books from Apple's iBookstore? The one that had The New York Times' bestsellers priced at $9.99, which would be competitive with ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet Canada Tech Forum round-up: pirates, pricing, and social media

By Laura Godfrey

This year's BookNet Canada Technology Forum “ or gathering of beautiful nerds, as Soft Skull Press founder Richard Nash called it “ took place on March 25 at Toronto's MaRS Centre, and involved about 200 ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 29

By Scott MacDonald

Your book world news for today: Contrary to reports out of Italy, Roth and Grisham both heart Obama Stephen King hearts Kindle, hates iPad Will e-books put wholesalers out of business? Diagram Prize winner: Crocheting ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 25

By Scott MacDonald

Here's today's book news: Publishers Weekly takes temperature of Bologna Children's Book Fair Will Random House ever be on the iPad? More conjecture on Apple's book pricing plans Newbery-winner Sid Fleischman dies Harold W. McGraw ... Read More »

March 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

iPad pricing to match that of Kindle … maybe

By Steven W. Beattie

The Internet is a hive of rumour and innuendo, and nowhere is this more true than with anything having to do with Apple, a company that plays its cards notoriously close to the vest. Now ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! Chester at Mabel’s Fables

By Nathan Whitlock

As part of Quillblog's ongoing commitment to filling our site with ephemera, sundries, and both flotsam and jetsam from around the book world, we are instituting a semi-regular feature entitled Way to Display!, in which ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Event photos: Tom Jokinen thinks outside the box at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel

By Laura Godfrey

On Tuesday night, CBC Radio producer Tom Jokinen (left) launched his new memoir Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training (Random House Canada) at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel as part of This Is Not a Reading Series. Above: ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 24

By Scott MacDonald

All the stuff you should be reading today: Publishers Weekly presents its (deeply depressing) 2009 sales rankings Author Paul Carr rants about Amazon's one-star review problem A rather thoughtful analysis of the current Amazon-in-Canada debate ... Read More »

March 24, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood takes home (half a) million-dollar prize

By Laura Godfrey

Margaret Atwood has won the Dan David Prize for Literature: Rendition of the 20th Century. The Canadian author will share the $1 million (U.S.) prize with Indian author Amitav Ghosh, and each winner will share ... Read More »

March 23, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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