You can meet your favourite author, but you'll have to buy a ticket Ouch, that hurts: 30 of the nastiest author-on-author insults Contrary to media reports, Lady Gaga and philosopher Slavoj Žižek are not caught ... Read More »
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A Nova Scotia sailor and writer is suing Warner Bros. for allegedly plagiarizing his novel, Fandango's Gold, for their 2008 Matthew McConaughey/Kate Hudson vehicle Fool's Gold. In a statement of claim filed in federal court ... Read More »
February 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Last week, the Internet behemoth Google launched its e-book sales site, Google eBooks, in the U.S. The e-book market is now crowded with offerings from Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and Sony, which in turn has spawned ... Read More »
What better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tolstoy's death than by breathing new life into one of his classic works? After the unexpected success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, it has become ... Read More »
January 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
In order to protect the public's delicate sensibilities, conservative Netherlands-based Christian publisher WordBridge Publishing has reprinted Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus as The N-word of the Narcissus. According to the publisher's website, the ... Read More »
January 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
On December 4, Douglas Hunter published an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail suggesting that the annual CBC literary smackdown known as Canada Reads is biased against non-fiction: I think it's super that Canadian ... Read More »
As Q&Q has been reporting all year, Toronto institution Pages Books & Magazines has been dangling by a thread at its current Queen Street West location, as the landlord has decided to raise the rent ... Read More »
July 9, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling
The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »
March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
This Quillblogger has fond memories of opening Scholastic's book flyers every month in elementary school, browsing their selection, and paying two weeks' allowance for the thrill of choosing books without outside interference, and having them ... Read More »
February 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
How far should an author go in response to a negative review? When Dan Fleisch, an author from Springfield, Ohio, read an Amazon review of his book, A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equation, which gave ... Read More »
February 9, 2009 | Filed under: Authors
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