Harper Lee denies cooperating with writer on upcoming biography Uncensored, vulgar Dorian Gray text published 120 years later Natalie Portman's doctor dad self-publishes fertility thriller UNESCO names Buenos Aires 2011 World Book Capital, thanks to ... Read More »
As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding, mass digitization, and foreign-ownership regulations. After nearly a ... Read More »
April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Libraries, Opinion
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 »
Canada lands on the International Intellectual Property Alliance's priority watch list as "haven" for international piracy organizations All-nighter term papers just got a lot trickier: design flaw at University of Calgary's new state-of-the-art library leaves ... Read More »
Much of the debate preceding this year's national Freedom to Read Week (Feb. 20-26) has focused on Alabama publisher NewSouth Books' edited version of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. No doubt this sensitive ... Read More »
February 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries
Yann Martel, "tired of using books as political bullets and grenades," quits his book club Jeff Lemire, Kate Beaton, and Conundrum Press among nominees for Joe Shuster Awards HarperCollins to publish crowdsourced novel by teen ... Read More »
Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the festivities today by releasing, on his Twitter feed, the 2010 report from the TPL's Materials ... Read More »
The Vancouver International Writers Festival has teamed up with the Vancouver Public Library to offer Incite, a new reading series set to launch later this month. The bimonthly events will feature a variety of Canadian ... Read More »
January 13, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries
An independent panel of arts and communications experts has advised the European Commission to limit the amount of time a private company such as Google can exercise preferential use of digitized materials from the public ... Read More »
The stereotype has it that England is filled with recondite literati ensconced in mahogany-lined libraries reading leather-bound volumes of Romantic poetry and plump Victorian novels. This as compared to the beer-swilling philistines in America, gorging ... Read More »