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E-books vs. bathtubs

Comparing the Sony Reader and Amazon's Kindle in Q&Q's November issue, editor Derek Weiler wrote that complaints about the bathtub unworthiness of e-books are just one of "the shibboleths that e-book skeptics fall back on ... Read More »

December 10, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

This week in new book technology

By Stuart Woods

There's no shortage of evidence that the tanking global economy is having a disastrous effect on the book trade south of the border. But this week, there have also been several news stories pointing to ... Read More »

November 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Random House to digitize a whole mess o’ books

By Steven W. Beattie

Europeana, the EU's online repository of digital books, may be experiencing birth pangs, but Random House in the U.S. seems convinced that the market for digital books is where the future of publishing lies. The ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The birth of comedy

By Stuart Woods

There's nothing new under the sun, especially in the hackneyed world of comedy. As the BBC reports, a book containing jokes that date back to the 4th century BC riffs on such shopworn topics as ... Read More »

November 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a blog relaunches, a novel is rediscovered, and a nobel laureate gets skewered

By Stuart Woods

Some book-related links: Noble laureate Jean-Marie Le Clézio faces the inevitable backlash Five poets write The New York Times op-ed page A scandalous novel by Kerouac and Burroughs sees the light of day (excerpted here) ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

You are what you read – presidential candidates edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Recently Katie Couric asked the presidential candidates about their favourite books, but Jon Meacham goes into more detail on the subject in The New York Times, arguing that a president's literary interests can tell us ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood talks to Salon about her well-timed meditation on debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Are Canadian authors' festivals the greatest? More gripes about those nasty chain bookstores Reed Elsevier beginning ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Oprah’s love affair with the Amazon Kindle

By Steven W. Beattie

The de facto Queen of All Media has gone digital. Last week, Amazon's Kindle e-reader got a powerful celebrity endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who declared that the gadget is "absolutely [her] new favorite thing in ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Coelho thinks publishers don’t get the web

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

According to Paulo Coelho, publishers don't understand the role of the Internet in the book industry. At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Coelho chastised publishers for not adapting in the face of the digital content craze. ... Read More »

October 17, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

The future of e-readers: the iPhone?

By Stuart Woods

While technology analysts have been touting e-ink “ which mimics the glare-free quality of real ink on a page “ as the breakthrough that could push e-readers into the mainstream, Forbes is reporting that the ... Read More »

October 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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