Search Results by tag: Indigo

Indigo to launch its own e-reader?

Canada AM tech reporter Kris Abel was casually chatting with Indigo CEO Heather Reisman this morning “ she had just got through doing an interview about her annual "summer reads" selections “ when she revealed ... Read More »

June 3, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: It looks like Shortcovers, Indigo's downloadable e-book application for mobile devices, has some new competition: Lexycycle, the start-up behind the popular iPhone e-book reader Stanza, has been acquired by ... Read More »

April 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Podcasts for poets

By Stuart Woods

Julie Wilson, recently in the headlines for her Indigo dust up, is launching a new project in conjunction with National Poetry Month in April. Wilson has invited 30 poets to submit recordings of themselves reading ... Read More »

March 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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

Julie Wilson’s Indigo entente

By Stuart Woods

Embattled lit blogger Julie Wilson, who was kicked out of a Toronto Indigo location earlier this week while doing research for her website Seen Reading, has come to an understanding with Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Seen Reading busted by Indigo

By Steven W. Beattie

In what has to qualify as the most absurd power-trip this Quillblogger has seen in a long, loooooong time, an overzealous Indigo employee apparently prevented Julie Wilson, administrator of the popular blog Seen Reading, from ... 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 Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea.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

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

Two Canadian novels on Richard & Judy’s list for 2009

By Steven W. Beattie

It's not quite Oprah, but in the U.K. it's the closest thing there is. Television celebrities Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are the hosts of Britain's wildly popular Richard and Judy's Book Club, and this ... Read More »

January 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Meyer beats Rowling?

By Scott MacDonald

The Canadian Press is reporting that Canadian sales of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series have begun to outstrip Harry Potter. The news comes via Indigo, which reported this week that sales of the Twilight series have ... Read More »

November 19, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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