Search Results by tag: LongPen

Atwood raises $54,000 to take the LongPen mobile

First there was the LongPen. Next, the LongPen went digital as iDoLVine LiveSign. Now, Margaret Atwood and a team of techies are looking to bring fans and artists even closer with the rollout of Fanado ... Read More »

July 11, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

LongPen goes digital as iDoLVine

By Natalie Samson

Margaret Atwood's LongPen has gone digital in its latest iteration as iDoLVine's LiveSign. According to Matthew Gibson, president and co-founder at iDoLVine and president and CTO at Syngrafii, the tech company responsible for creating and ... Read More »

May 17, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Atwood’s LongPen comes in handy for The Year of the Flood

By Stuart Woods

When her previous novel, Oryx and Crake, was published six years ago, Margaret Atwood was unable to make use of the LongPen, her quirky invention that allows authors to do remote book signings. But with ... Read More »

July 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

By Jacob Sheen

Eye Weekly has a brief history of the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto. Apparently, it used to be a bowling alley. (Bring your own tenpins and a bowling ball and it still could be.) ... Read More »

February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bookmarks: Arthur C. Clarke’s birthday wish list, the LongPen in the NYT and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Arthur C. Clarke makes his wish list for his 90th birthday (The Guardian) Have you heard about this LongPen thing? Some people haven't, apparently (The New York Times) Derek McCormack's fashionable Christmas ... Read More »

December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book links

Conrad Black: he haunts us still

By Nathan Whitlock

Former media baron and author Conrad Black has not been allowed to return to Canada following his conviction on fraud and obstruction of justice charges in the U.S., but he is finding other ways to ... Read More »

October 3, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Richler's film apprenticeship

By Stuart Woods

Charles Foran, writing in The Walrus (subscription required), previews the TV adaptation of Mordecai Richler's St. Urbain's Horseman, which airs Sept. 19 and 20 on CBC. Foran also describes Richler's involvement with the film industry, ... Read More »

September 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Munro: going, going….

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Alice Munro retirement dance continues. The Toronto Star’s Judy Stoffman keeps the story alive with a new piece reminding readers that Munro said back in October that she’s completed four more stories yet to ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Henighan on the LongPen

By Leigh Anne Williams

Margaret Atwood's LongPen is set to wow crowds at BookExpo America in a couple of weeks, but at least one commentator is unconvinced of its appeal. Author Stephen Henighan attended the failed test signing at ... Read More »

May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Authors

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