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Amazon's race to sell everything

Amazon.com released its first-quarter results last week (which contained no specific mention of Canada), to the disappointment of most investors. It appears that Amazon's aggressive investment in the toy and grocery categories is dampening profits.While ... Read More »

August 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

To sell or not to sell: the now-non-existent question?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Dallas Morning News contains an article by Jerome Weeks that stresses the need for authors to know how to promote their work. And he doesn't mean the bare-bones basics of not getting drunk at ... Read More »

August 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Update: Brick Lane fracas rages on

By Cassandra Drudi

Quillblog linked last month to the Guardian's coverage of the Brick Lane brouhaha, which consisted of east London borough Tower Hamlets residents putting up a stink about the production of a film based on Monica ... Read More »

August 2, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Hemingway's great-grandkitties run amok, angering feds

By Cassandra Drudi

It's too bad Ernest Hemingway isn't alive today -- who wouldn't want an army of six-toed supercats to command? But now his kitty command could be in jeopardy!Apparently, around 46 cats (half of them polydactyl) ... Read More »

August 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Norton busts out Uncle Tom

By Cassandra Drudi

Uncle Tom's Cabin: key historic text or racist claptrap? PW Daily's Three Answers column put this question to Norton executive editor Robert Weil, whose company is publishing September's The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin. They grill ... Read More »

August 1, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Summer school

By Q&Q Staff

Who needs Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley when you have David Bezmozgis and Lisa Moore? The summer faculty at the Humber School for Writers gathered for a class photo. (Photo by Mary Jo Morris.) Front ... Read More »

July 27, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Books: hot, fresh, and ready to go

By Cassandra Drudi

Hit the ATM, the DVD kiosk, and the made-to-order book machine? This ain't no book vending machine, folks -- it's more like a coffee-machine, making a book for you in three minutes or so at ... Read More »

July 27, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

The eBook tease continues

By Cassandra Drudi

CNET News's Gagdet Blog reported yesterday that Sony has shuffled the release date of its PRS-500 eBook reader back yet another season. Once promised for spring, then summer of this year, an e-mail update from ... Read More »

July 27, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Newsflash: novelists suck at writing plays

By Cassandra Drudi

The Guardian explores the phenomenon of novelists who write great books yet suck at penning plays. Or, as Philip Hensher puts it: "[James Joyce's play] Exiles, like most plays written by novelists, is a notoriously ... Read More »

July 26, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Bog unearths untold bookly delights

By Cassandra Drudi

The L.A. Times boasted one of the most intriguing leads of recent days with the announcement that "Irish archeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms, found by a construction worker while ... Read More »

July 26, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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