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Turow switches publishers

An article published earlier this week in The New York Times looks at author Scott Turow's decision to switch publishers for his impending Presumed Innocent sequel. It's not exactly a publisher switch, though “ as ... Read More »

April 9, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

BC Book and Magazine Week

By Eric Emin Wood

It's almost time again for BC Book and Magazine Week (BCBMW), the province's week-long celebration of all things literary. Founded in 1999, the festival takes place at multiple locations across B.C., from Victoria to Vancouver ... Read More »

April 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

The perils of comics publishing

By Eric Emin Wood

Two articles in Publishers Weekly highlight the challenges faced by today's comic book publishers when seeking an audience. First, distribution giant Diamond's new minimum wholesale order ($2,500, up from $1,500) is creating hardship for smaller independent houses. Last ... Read More »

April 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Serialized novel 2.0?

By Eric Emin Wood

The return of the serialized novel has been trumpeted before (notably by this very blog), and James Patterson made headlines recently with his chain thriller, Airborne. But The Los Angeles Times has combined the two. Yesterday, the ... Read More »

April 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Gargantuan Stephen King novel emerges after 25-year incubation

By Steven W. Beattie

It took him 25 years from conception to completion, but Stephen King is finally ready to publish his hulking unwieldy boulder-like epic novel Under the Dome, described as an allegorical tale about a town in ... Read More »

April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon kindles a price war

By Steven W. Beattie

It may not be the equivalent of the sans-coulottes rising en masse during the French Revolution or a student facing down a tank in Tiananmen Square, but there appears to be a grassroots uprising of ... Read More »

April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bookmarks: Toronto’s newest used bookstore, and more

By Stuart Woods

Re: Reading, Toronto's newest used bookstore, opens its doors on Saturday. (The store is located on the Danforth, not far from area stalwart Book City, as well as newcomers Type Books and Circus.) The shortlists ... Read More »

April 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Proofreading the public domain

By Stuart Woods

At last month's BookNet Canada technology forum, one memorable moment came during a talk by Montrealer Hugh McGuire, one of the co-organizers of BookCamp Toronto and the founder of LibriVox, an online repository of free, ... Read More »

April 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: The 2008 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

By Stuart Woods

Friends, family, and a handful of industry types gathered in Toronto on Wednesday to hand out the 2008 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, awarded to unpublished authors under the age of 35. For ... Read More »

April 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Those bloody, author-thievin’ Irish

By Scott MacDonald

In response to the recent spat between Ukrainians and Russians over the true citizenship of Nikolai Gogol, The Guardian books blogger John Mullan questions the whole notion of countries laying claims of ownership on writers. ... Read More »

April 1, 2009

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