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One more reason not to trust reader reviews

We're not sure how long the website readerspoils.com has been around, but we thought we should bring it to your attention. It's a site from out of the U.S. that allows authors to pay cold, ... Read More »

November 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

November Q&Q: Don Gillmor

By Stuart Woods

The cover star for the November Q&Q, now on newsstands, is journalist and historian Don Gillmor, whose first novel for adults, Kanata, is being published this month by Viking Canada. Also in the issue, Q&Q ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Yann Martel’s “shocking” new novel

By Alison Potstra

Yann Martel's follow-up to Life of Pi, titled Beatrice and Virgil and due in June 2010, is already generating controversy in the U.K., where Martel's publisher, Canongate, has described the novel, an allegory about the ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon’s Kindle not lighting fires in Norway

By Steven W. Beattie

Despite healthy sales and an endorsement from Oprah in the U.S., Amazon's Kindle reading device may run afoul of Norway's consumer regulations should the online bookselling giant decide to release the device there in its ... Read More »

November 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

(Some) Alberta writers ineligible for Alberta award

By Steven W. Beattie

The Alberta Readers' Choice Award, a new prize jointly sponsored by the Edmonton Public Library and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta, is worth a cool $10,000 for the winner. But there's a catch: Alberta-based ... Read More »

November 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Michael Turner massages the medium

By Alison Potstra

In an interview this morning with Brian Joseph Davis at The Globe and Mail's In Other Words blog, innovative author Michael Turner offers a fresh, if not slightly perplexing, perspective on a writer's relationship with ... Read More »

October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Scholastic [U.S.] tries to censor kids’ book with same-sex couple characters [UPDATED]

By Nathan Whitlock

Publishers are often called upon to defend their books against people and organizations (parents, school boards, governments, self-appointed morality squads, etc.) who attempt to ban or suppress them. In the case of a new tween ... Read More »

October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen King’s new face of evil: predatory pricing: UPDATED

By Steven W. Beattie

When you're an author of Stephen King's stature, you can afford to be direct. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly (where the mega-selling author is also a regular columnist), King had a message for retailers who are ... Read More »

October 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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