A few bookish links from across the Web: Book-loving travellers, breathe a sigh of relief: Transport Canada explains that the whole airplane book ban was just a misunderstanding Hundreds of readers offer words of support ... Read More »
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You knew this was coming, didn't you? From The New York Times: With his sustained blitz of television appearances and speeches, former Vice President Dick Cheney has established himself as perhaps the leading Republican voice ... Read More »
May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
The winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, which is partially funded by the Booker foundation, has been announced. The majority of titles on the shortlist “ Hunger, The Unfaithful Translator, The American Granddaughter, Time of White Horses, The ... Read More »
March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
Two weeks ago we blogged about Scholastic's controversial misuse of its book clubs, but it would appear that was a mere footnote compared to the uproar generated by the company's Klutz division, which has published ... Read More »
February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »
November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Dan Blacharski, a columnist for ITworld.com, has weighed in on the Microsoft vs. Google book search debate, pointing out that while it is fashionable to bash Microsoft as a corporate bully, the Microsoft Live Book ... Read More »
March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion
Although the famous have come to his defence in the question of plagiarism or fair borrowing as historical research, will anyone defend Ian McEwan from Ziauddin Sardar's charge in New Statesman that he, Martin Amis, ... Read More »
December 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news
The CBC was trumpeting the news yesterday that two key characters are going to be offed come the newest installment of the bespectacled moppet's adventures. They reported that an interview broadcast on Monday on Britain's ... Read More »
June 27, 2006 | Filed under: Authors
An article in today's Toronto Star tolls doom and gloom for the future of punctuation, laying blame at the feet of the Internet and its evil minions of Google, instant messengers, e-mail, text messaging, and ... Read More »
June 7, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
We may chuckle at Metallica's overly dramatic lyrics or snicker at the costumes of Gwar, but metal bands may have more in common with booklovers than might have been originally assumed, according to William Weir ... Read More »
April 5, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news