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Daily book biz round-up: Neil Gaiman’s Spawn; library books with mayo; and more

News bites: Publishers call new Amazon "Levels of Service" plan "extortion" Harlequin signs deal with Russian publisher Little, Brown launches new imprint: Mulholland Drive In hopes of landing lucrative legal settlement, Neil Gaiman admits to ... Read More »

June 15, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, April 12

By Scott MacDonald

An assortment of links to kick off your work week: No Canadians on IMPAC prize shortlist The Bookseller offers its London Book Fair rights preview iPad Mini in the works? (Uh, I've got an iPad ... Read More »

April 12, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin tries for some online love with digital publishing venture

By Steven W. Beattie

Harlequin Enterprises, best known as a publisher of romance novels in the traditional "dead tree" format, has just launched an online publishing house, Carina Press. According to the Carina home page, the new venture will ... Read More »

November 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Richard Poplak and more in the May Q&Q

By Stuart Woods

Jet-setting author Richard Poplak travelled to 17 different countries to research his latest book, which looks at the influence of American pop culture in the Muslim world, and he's Q&Q's cover subject in the May ... Read More »

May 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin rakes in cash for ailing Torstar

By Scott MacDonald

Harlequin parent company Torstar has just released its fourth-quarter results for 2008, and things look pretty bad: the company lost $211.2-million during the period, mostly via its stake in CTV/Globemedia. The one bright spot for ... Read More »

February 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin announces mass layoffs

By Leigh Anne Williams

In a terse press release, Harlequin parent company Torstar has announced plans for laying off 4% of the workforce at the multinational romance publisher. Says the release: "Torstar expects that the restructuring charge will be ... Read More »

October 4, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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