Come ‘n get yer scoops:

• Hilary Mantel wins National Book Critics Circle Award
• Margaret Atwood to sing her little heart out in Score: A Hockey Musical. And if you don’t believe that, here’s some pics.
• Crummey and Mitchell win Commonwealth book prizes
• You can’t have an iPad yet, but you can pay for one right now!
• More breathless iPad revelations: book selections to be categorized … and sub-categorized!
• Hachette Livre takes off glove, slaps Paris Book Fair in face
• “Unknown mid-list author from Canada” begs for dough on Dragon’s Den
• Macmillan CEO (and heartthrob) John Sargent ponders the “thorny” problem of e-books and libraries
• John Sargent again, this time taking questions from his adoring fans