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It’s crowded at the top

Nicholas Clee has a story in The Times about three books that claim to be #1 bestsellers, and the vaguely dishonest, semantical games their authors and publishers play to justify that claim. One book was ... Read More »

August 8, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon's race to sell everything

By Leigh Anne Williams

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

Brit indies stick it to The Man

By Cassandra Drudi

Indie booksellers in Canada may think they've got it bad when it comes to the ever-encroaching chains, but English booksellers took another blow last week when "Ottakar's, the second-largest book chain, finally fell to the ... Read More »

July 11, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Independent publisher takes BEA panelists to the ground

By Cassandra Drudi

Working Assets editorial director Jennifer Nix used her blog Firedoglake to lay some smack on BookExpo America yesterday. Her beef? That many mainstream magazines and newspaper editors avoid political books and ignore the legions of ... Read More »

May 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

By Scott MacDonald

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

No, they're not letting up

By Scott MacDonald

In yet another bid to popularize the presentation of books online and worm its way into the hearts of publishers, Google has announced a new offer through which readers can purchase the right to read ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Oprah's not the only one out for blood

By Scott MacDonald

With book clubs being touted as part of the future of book marketing, the idea of author visits to book club meetings is getting more and more popular with publishers and writers. Meetings are seen ... Read More »

February 15, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

Flood book in high demand

By Scott MacDonald

Steven McElroy of The Associated Press reports on the online sales of a book about the 1927 flood along the Mississippi River. First published in 1998, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and ... Read More »

September 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

The science of sales?

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's the holy grail for the book industry -- empirical scientific data on just what makes a bestseller a bestseller. This Science Daily article tells of a study by "UCLA physicist and complex systems theorist ... Read More »

December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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