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Book links roundup: Philip Roth tributes

Today is Philip Roth's 80th birthday. So what do you give a guy who has everything (except the Nobel Prize in Literature) and is trending on Twitter? How about a roundup of some of today's ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

Accessible publishing, indie bookstore success, and more

By Natalie Sequeira

How Bookshare provides accessible publishing for the "print disabled" Kirsten Reach on how U.S. indie bookstores are flourishing BBC sells Lonely Planet to U.S.-based NC2 Ayelet Tsabari on the guilt and anxiety that accompany a ... Read More »

March 19, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction (13)

By Sue Carter

Proving that Canadians have an insatiable appetite for erotic fiction, L. Marie Adeline's novel S.E.C.R.E.T. tops this week's BookNet Canada bestsellers list. For the two weeks ending March 10: 1. S.E.C.R.E.T., L. Marie Adeline, (Doubleday ... Read More »

March 18, 2013 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Controversial Library and Archives Canada code of conduct names teaching as “high-risk” activity

By Sue Carter

A controversial new Library and Archives Canada code of conduct warns its employees that teaching, speaking at conferences, and other personal engagements is considered "high risk to LAC and to the employee with regard to ... Read More »

March 18, 2013 | Filed under: Libraries

Collaborating with dead writers, the world’s smallest book, and more

By Natalie Sequeira

Google Docs lets you collaborate with Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and other dead writers Japan's Toppan Printing creates "the smallest ever printed book British publishers sue Delhi University for copyright infringement Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, and ... Read More »

March 18, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

James Franco novel to launch Amazon fiction imprint, Vatican to digitize library, and more

By Sue Carter

Amazon Publishing launches literary fiction imprint with James Franco novel Vatican to digitize library, including 80,000 historical manuscripts The ... Read More »

March 15, 2013 | Filed under: Book links

Robert Kroetsch Award recognizes rookie poet Claire Lacey

By Julie Baldassi

Calgary poet Claire Lacey is this year's recipient of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her manuscript, Twin Tongues, incorporates English and Tok Pisin, the two most widely used lingua franca in Papua New ... Read More »

March 14, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

BookNet bestsellers: non-fiction (4)

By Natalie Sequeira

Amid lawsuits and protests over the portrayal of Iranians in the Oscar-winning film Argo, many Canadians are reading the book on which the film was based, which lands at #7 on this week's bestsellers list. ... Read More »

March 14, 2013 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Q&A with children’s author Rona Arato

By Natalie Sequeira

On April 10, 1945, a train loaded with Hungarian Jews left the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. German officials were attempting to cover up the existence of the Jewish prisoners in anticipation of the arrival of ... Read More »

March 14, 2013 | Filed under: Authors, Children's publishing

B.C. Book Prize finalists announced

By Natalie Sequeira

The best of the West Coast's writers and publishers have made their way onto this year's B.C. Book Prize shortlist, spanning seven categories ranging from children's literature to poetry to original non-fiction. The winners, each ... Read More »

March 14, 2013 | Filed under: Awards

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