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Bookmarks: Shopping lists, the iPhone Kindle app, and the $1-million French novel

For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Now playing on an iPhone near you…

By Eric Emin Wood

Turns out the fastest growing category on Apple's iTunes app store isn't games or music, but books. At least, in terms of "unique applications" (i.e. individual titles). As the O'Reilly Radar points out, "releasing an e-book ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon’s rising monopoly

By Stuart Woods

Over at Slate, technology columnist Farhad Manjoo offers an analysis of how the Kindle 2 skews the emerging market for e-books in Amazon's favour, to the detriment of authors, publishers, libraries, chain bookstores, indie bookstores, ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Shortcovers set to launch tonight

By Scott MacDonald

While nerdy Americans await delivery of their Kindle 2s, nerdy Canadians can console themselves by trying Indigo's new Shortcovers service. The ambitious e-book service “ which allows users to download titles to their cellphones or ... Read More »

February 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Kindle 2 not coming to Canada

By Stuart Woods

This week, Amazon unveiled Kindle 2, but the thinner, sleeker e-reader is still not available in Canada. That means Canadians will have to wait to read Stephen King's lastest novella, which is a Kindle-only exclusive. ... Read More »

February 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Another new format?

By Eric Emin Wood

We've all heard of audiobooks, but videobooks? HarperCollins is trying to pitch short films of authors summarizing their books (until recently known as an online promotional trailer) as a new format “ even going so ... Read More »

February 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Daniel Handler kills the composer for the kids

By Steven W. Beattie

The mental and spiritual development of the young 'uns seems to be much on the minds of literary types these days. Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket (apparently to his lasting chagrin: the author's ... Read More »

February 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon set to unveil new Kindle amidst burgeoning Q4 profits

By Stuart Woods

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: hybrid readers, seasonal reading, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

James Frey was an intern for a day at Gawker.com. Readers were invited to post questions for him -- Oprah jokes and inquiries about his fact-checking process ensued What's your seasonal reading pattern? Molly Flatt ... Read More »

December 12, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

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