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Amazon set to unveil new Kindle amidst burgeoning Q4 profits

Is this the new Kindle? Internet rumours are swirling that Amazon will unveil the second-generation Kindle at a New York City press conference on Feb. 9. And while some commentators question whether or not the ... Read More »

January 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Canada's Sun Media is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada -- about 10 percent of the workforce (CBCnews.ca) Amazon U.K. employees are being forced to work seven days a week; they are given ... Read More »

December 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

E-books vs. bathtubs

By Nathan Whitlock

Comparing the Sony Reader and Amazon's Kindle in Q&Q's November issue, editor Derek Weiler wrote that complaints about the bathtub unworthiness of e-books are just one of "the shibboleths that e-book skeptics fall back on ... Read More »

December 10, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

This week in new book technology

By Stuart Woods

There's no shortage of evidence that the tanking global economy is having a disastrous effect on the book trade south of the border. But this week, there have also been several news stories pointing to ... Read More »

November 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Random House to digitize a whole mess o’ books

By Steven W. Beattie

Europeana, the EU's online repository of digital books, may be experiencing birth pangs, but Random House in the U.S. seems convinced that the market for digital books is where the future of publishing lies. The ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Obama a literary winner, too

By Scott MacDonald

In the wake of Barack Obama's historic win last night, The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the current sales status of Obama's two books “ his 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father and ... Read More »

November 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Oprah’s love affair with the Amazon Kindle

By Steven W. Beattie

The de facto Queen of All Media has gone digital. Last week, Amazon's Kindle e-reader got a powerful celebrity endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who declared that the gadget is "absolutely [her] new favorite thing in ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Le Clezio’s work will appear in The New Yorker for the first time

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Earlier this month, Quillblog copped ignorance to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio's work, since there was only one English title available on Amazon. Apparently, the announcement of Le Clezio the winner of this year's Nobel Prize ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Cookbooks and thrillers are top-sellers in a crisis crunch

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Reuters is reporting that in the face of a global financial crisis, people are looking to books for answers -- including cookbooks and thrillers. [Borders vice president for adult trade books Kathryn] Popoff said sales ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The future of e-readers: the iPhone?

By Stuart Woods

While technology analysts have been touting e-ink “ which mimics the glare-free quality of real ink on a page “ as the breakthrough that could push e-readers into the mainstream, Forbes is reporting that the ... Read More »

October 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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