Click on thumbnails to see highlights from recent Canadian book events, including the inaugural ... Read More »
October 8, 2013 | Filed under: Events
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Google eBooks launches e-reading device, available only at U.S. Target stores Amazon asks for California voter referendum, hoping to overturn ... Read More »
July 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
He was perhaps best known for invoking the peace and love generation of the 1960s to "turn on, tune in, drop out," but Timothy Leary, the guru who advocated the mind-enhancing positive effects of LSD, ... Read More »
A Nova Scotia sailor and writer is suing Warner Bros. for allegedly plagiarizing his novel, Fandango's Gold, for their 2008 Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson vehicle Fool's Gold. In a statement of claim filed in federal court ... Read More »
February 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
As willed by the author, the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography was released for the first time on Monday, 100 years after his death. Yet even before its release, the Autobiography of Mark Twain, ... Read More »
November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
The Guardian is reporting that the 10th edition of The Mirriam-Webster Dictionary has been yanked from classrooms in the Menifee Union district of California after a parent complained about a "sexually graphic" definition for the ... Read More »
January 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: Simon & Schuster's operating profits decline by 58% for the year Gil Adamson featured in the Guardian Book Oven, a collaborative literary community run by BookCamp Toronto's Hugh McGuire, ... Read More »
August 7, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
As many of you probably already know, the state of California is dealing with one of its worst ever fiscal crises, and governator Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing a number of emergency measures to deal with ... Read More »
June 9, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news
On Jan. 7, CTV will air Of Murder and Memory, a fictionalized adaptation of Linda Spalding's 2006 true crime memoir Who Named the Knife? Spalding's book centres on the trial of Maryann Acker, who was ... Read More »
January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Authors
Some book-related links: Winnipeg women's group sends more than 5,000 books to Nunavut (Winnipeg Free Press) Is sci-fi too nostalgic? (i09.com) Robotic librarian wreaks havoc dispenses books in rural California (The Sacramento Bee) Library patron ... Read More »
August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
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