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Librarians blog about awful books

Time magazine has a fun article about two librarians from the Detroit area who have started a blog called Awful Library Books, where they list some of the outdated, irrelevant, or abysmal titles they've come ... Read More »

July 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Recession woes for Borders UK and Bertelsmann

By Stuart Woods

There are more signs this week that the beleaguered book-selling chain Borders UK could be up for sale. On Thursday, The Independent reported that owner Luke Johnson has hired a corporate finance firm to seek ... Read More »

June 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Anne Giardini is the boss

By Nathan Whitlock

Though novelists who are also doctors (Chekhov, Maugham, Vincent Lam) get the most attention, there have been a few creative writers who have occupied lofty positions in the business world, too. Criminally underrated novelist Henry ... Read More »

May 20, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

By Stuart Woods

Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature in Dubai earlier this week over concerns of censorship, Margaret Atwood decides she'll ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Economic downturn edition

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Canada's Sun Media is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada -- about 10 percent of the workforce (CBCnews.ca) Amazon U.K. employees are being forced to work seven days a week; they are given ... Read More »

December 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

The bad news continues for U.S. publishers

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Black Wednesday saw three of the largest U.S. publishers announce massive layoffs and restructuring, and it seems there will be no end to these types of changes as the economy continues to spiral downward. Macmillan, ... Read More »

December 16, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Parsing Black Wednesday

By Stuart Woods

One of the worst weeks in U.S. publishing history has left the book trade facing a grim tally. Just to sum up, on Wednesday three of the biggest publishers south of the border announced massive ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Big shake-ups at Random House U.S.

By Scott MacDonald

There's some scary stuff going on at Random House in the U.S. today. Industry observers anticipated changes to the company's organizational structure after new CEO Markus Dohle took over earlier this year, but few could ... Read More »

December 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Becky Saletan, senior vice-president and publisher of the U.S.-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has quit, effective Dec. 10. From The Canadian Press: Saletan had served in the job since January 2008, when she was appointed to ... Read More »

December 2, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Gloomy times for the U.S. book trade

By Stuart Woods

News broke yesterday that Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House U.S., is laying off 16 employees “ a 10% cut in staff. While David Drake, a Doubleday spokesperson, denies that the cuts have ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

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