Last week, the Internet behemoth Google launched its e-book sales site, Google eBooks, in the U.S. The e-book market is now crowded with offerings from Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and Sony, which in turn has spawned ... Read More »
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Today's book news: HarperCollins U.K. scapegoats typesetter for Freedom blunder Freedom also being recalled in Australia ... Read More »
October 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book links
Sundry links from around the Web: The Los Angeles Times calls Judy Wearing's Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (published this month by ECW Press) the ... Read More »
November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Did Ingram accidentally leak the next Oprah book club pick? (By the way, it's Uwem Akpan's short story collection Say You're One of Them) Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol ... Read More »
September 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Author and Q&Q contibutor Shaun Smith points out what he's calling a "very Canadian problem" with a new cookbook coming from Phaidon Press this fall. Called COCO, the book will feature recipes from 100 emerging ... Read More »
July 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Australia's Productivity Commission has recommended to the federal government that it lift all restrictions on parallel importation of books, according to an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. Quillblog linked to this story back in ... Read More »
July 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Books written by teenage authors are nothing new, of course (S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Gordon Korman's This Can't Be Happening At McDonald Hall come to mind), but it's still rare to see an entire ... Read More »
February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Some book-related links: Q&Q contributor Steven W. Beattie and author/bookseller Matt Sturrock have it out over Martin Amis's new book (That Shakespeherian Rag) Christopher Shulgan stalks Don McKellar (Shulgan) Kiwi men offered free beer to ... Read More »
August 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Nicholas Jones is an artist and "book sculptor" working in Melbourne, Australia. According to the personal testimonial on his website, Jones claims his art is an extension of the book's life cycle, from wood pulp ... Read More »
Some book-related links: The flaws in Ishmael Beah's memoir called "poetic licence" (The Australian) Is sci-fi out of ideas? (Entertainment Weekly) The Bard goes manga (The Star - Malaysia) Tales of romance, in Polish (The ... Read More »
January 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
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