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Daily book biz round-up: new Kindle reviewed; World Fantasy Award nominees unveiled; and more

Today's book news: The New York Times reviews the new Kindle Beaten down by Random House, Andrew Wylie now in talks with Penguin World Fantasy Award shortlist unveiled BookNet Canada looks for speakers for next ... Read More »

August 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Penguin and Amazon make up; Garrison Keillor gets piled on; and more

By Scott MacDonald

More news from around the Web: The New York Times takes stock of BookExpo America Penguin and Amazon finally reconcile their differences. Aww! Chinese author sues Google for scanning her book. Good luck with that ... Read More »

May 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Martel’s musical flight of fancy

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel is no doubt a busy man: not only is the Man Booker Prize“winning author of Life of Pi a new father, he's also promoting his latest novel, Beatrice & Virgil, and fending off ... Read More »

May 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, April 1

By Scott MacDonald

No foolin' here, just the straight dope: Borders escapes death-watch via refinancing Shocker! Amazon goes to agency model with HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster Non-shocker! Wolf Hall among Walter Scott Prize nominees Marcel Theroux, Kim ... Read More »

April 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, Mar. 10

By Scott MacDonald

Here's what's making news around the Web today: The New York Times Book Review? There's going to be an app for that Could Google put translators out of business? A portrait of the reader as ... Read More »

March 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

The Baby-Sitters Club returns

By Laura Godfrey

Plenty of young women who grew up in the 1980s and '90s still fondly remember The Baby-Sitters Club, the book series that motivated many childhood trips to the library. Ten years after the series ceased ... Read More »

January 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Douglas Coupland really does like the Canada Council

By Stuart Woods

Douglas Coupland has called himself the world's worst worrier, and apparently the thing he's been fretting about lately is an inaccuracy that appeared in the National Post. In the article in question, crime novelist William ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: The Los Angeles Times calls Judy Wearing's Edison's Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (published this month by ECW Press) the ... Read More »

November 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Terminatrix Palin, Wild Things art, and the interactive Proust questionnaire

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin's HarperCollins editor has a double life, The Daily Beast reports. He also helped work on the satirical title published during Palin's VP run, Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles Just ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

By Stuart Woods

The Romanian-born German author Herta MÃ¼ller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. If you've never heard of her before, that's understandable: while she's widely read in Eastern Europe and is one of Germany's ... Read More »

October 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: New York Times

Daily book biz round-up: new Kindle reviewed; World Fantasy Award nominees unveiled; and more

Daily book biz round-up: Penguin and Amazon make up; Garrison Keillor gets piled on; and more

Martel’s musical flight of fancy

Daily book biz round-up, April 1

Daily book biz round-up, Mar. 10

The Baby-Sitters Club returns

Douglas Coupland really does like the Canada Council

Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

Bookmarks: Terminatrix Palin, Wild Things art, and the interactive Proust questionnaire

Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

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