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The hell with seasonal books

So far as Valentine's Day is concerned, there are two kinds of people: those who revel in prepackaged tokens of love and those for whom such tokens elicit the response of retching. Regardless of what ... Read More »

February 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

A book is a live thing like your dog, says bookseller

By Scott MacDonald

An article posted on the Toronto Star website today profiles the Dog Lovers Bookshop, an online bookseller carrying new and used books on all subjects canine. Formerly a bricks-and-mortar store, the business is co-owned by ... Read More »

February 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

So emo

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been a lot of book-biz chatter about the chick-lit genre in the past few years, but in a column on the Book Standard site, Jessa Crispin takes on a male analogue: "the emo boy ... Read More »

January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Co-operation makes it happen

By Scott MacDonald

The current issue of Fast Company magazine reports the story of Berrett-Koehler, a press with an innovative approach to publishing. Based in San Francisco, the 13-year-old publishing house operates on the principle of collaboration. In ... Read More »

December 1, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Natural literary selection

By Leigh Anne Williams

There's been historical criticism, biographical criticism, Marxist criticism, and many more. The latest literary theory to get some mainstream attention is Darwinian criticism. In a feature in The New York Times Magazine, writer D.T. Max ... Read More »

November 10, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Searching for JT Leroy

By Scott MacDonald

A recent article in New York magazine follows writer Stephen Beachy's search for an ever-elusive, ever-reclusive figure in contemporary American letters. With a number of writerly acquaintances and as author of three cult-status books endorsed ... Read More »

October 18, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

We're on a road to nowhere

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »

October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Confessions of a Gorgeous Hussy

By Scott MacDonald

With a lawsuit well underway against Google for their Google Print project, the search engine's decision to digitize the contents of major libraries has raised questions about the merits and disadvantages of the Internet's role ... Read More »

September 29, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The hardcover club

By Leigh Anne Williams

Hardcover or trade paper? Author Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, whose first novel, The Nettle Spinner, is being published by Goose Lane Editions this spring (following a short-story collection), brings a personal perspective to that age-old debate in ... Read More »

April 4, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Holdstock takes America

By Leigh Anne Williams

Another Canadian-authored book with a retooled foreign title got some notice this weekend. Pauline Holdstock's Giller-nominated novel Beyond Measure (Cormorant Books) was featured in the New York Times Book Review, where reviewer Suzy Hansen argues ... Read More »

March 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: cover design

The hell with seasonal books

A book is a live thing like your dog, says bookseller

So emo

Co-operation makes it happen

Natural literary selection

Searching for JT Leroy

We're on a road to nowhere

Confessions of a Gorgeous Hussy

The hardcover club

Holdstock takes America

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