So The New York Times has just unveiled its annual "100 Notable Books of the Year" list, and there ain't a lot of Cancon on it. The only Canadian author we spotted was (surprise!) Alice ... Read More »
November 23, 2007
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In a sardonic post announcing his reluctant embrace of the blogosphere, Edmonton author Todd Babiak (The Book of Stanley, The Garneau Block) expresses his instinctive distaste for self-serving author blogs: I used to make fun ... Read More »
November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
BookNet Canada CEO Michael Tamblyn spoke at a Saturday morning seminar on "Digitization and the Future of Canadian Bookselling," which focused on e-readers. In order to assess the viability of the medium, Tamblyn himself tried ... Read More »
June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Events
At a Friday seminar, Kris Abel, CTV's resident tech expert, looked at some of the electronic-reading platforms currently on the market and forthcoming. He pointed to: Manybooks.net, which offers e-books in almost any format for ... Read More »
June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
As BookExpo America kicks off in New York City, the L.A. Times has a brief writeup on the U.S.'s annual convention and trade show. And it seems that publishers are going in with Web 2.0 ... Read More »
May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news
Charles McGrath has been "test driving" the lastest e-book device from Sony and has reviewed it for The New York Times. Although the technology has come a long way, he says, the Sony Reader still ... Read More »
November 24, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Earlier this summer, Quillblog featured a few posts about California senator Sheila Kuehl's attempts to get bill SB 1437 -- which would make it mandatory to "to require that textbooks in California schools detail the ... Read More »
August 9, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
To mark its (final) Summer Fiction issue, Toronto Life is running a web-only roundtable discussion with three Toronto authors: Shyam Selvadurai, Sheila Heti, and Andrew Pyper. The subject is "Toronto literature," and a couple of ... Read More »
July 20, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
With the extortion-esque prices of books these days, it always feels good to stick it to the Man and grab a good deal on a read. And what better deal than free? Book lovers everywhere ... Read More »
June 6, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, In Other Media reported on gay Santa Monica Democrat senator Sheila Kuehl's Bill SB 1437 -- which would pump up the gay, lesbian, and transgender content of Californian textbooks -- passing the Senate ... Read More »
May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
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