November 18, 2015 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Digital publishing and technology
Search Results by tag: social media
Rupi Kaur, the 23-year-old Brampton, Ontario–based writer, has had a wildly successful year, ratcheting up more than 280,000 Instagram followers, along with public endorsements by such celebrities as Martha Stewart and Mark Ruffalo. Kaur was ... Read More »
A new Web app called Hi is being touted as "Instagram for writers." Conceived by Craig Mod, a writer, designer, and digital publishing entrepreneur based out of San Francisco, the "networked storytelling tool" is designed ... Read More »
July 18, 2013 | Filed under: Book culture, Digital publishing and technology
Proving that social media is useful for more than stalking celebrities, the world's first Twitter Fiction Festival kicks off today. Until Dec. 2, a dedicated Twitter page will showcase 140-character experimental fiction, including a story ... Read More »
November 28, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
As soon as news broke that Penguin and Random House may merge into a mega-publishing house, social media began musing on the would-be company's new name, with some pretty hilarious results. Twitter quickly embraced the ... Read More »
October 26, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Emily Schultz talks beauty and violence in The Blondes Ontario illustrator Jason Fabok draws his way to the cover of DC Comics' Batman New book to "set the record straight" on the 2011 bin Laden ... Read More »
August 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Book of feminist Ryan Gosling memes to be published Is social media ruining the critic-author relationship? Bain Capital bids on McGraw-Hill's textbook division, valued at U.S. $3 billion Four self-published Smashwords authors make The New ... Read More »
August 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
(Photo: Cash Mob Windsor) Flash mob, meet the buy local movement. That's what happened at Juniper Used and Rare Books last Saturday, when more than 50 customers simultaneously descended on the Windsor, Ontario, bookshop. The ... Read More »
March 30, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
Five years after finishing life at Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling is back with a new publisher and a book deal for her first adult novel. Little, Brown will publish the untitled novel in the U.S. and in ... Read More »
February 23, 2012 | Filed under: Authors
Two of Toronto's longstanding independent bookstores will face major changes in 2012. This morning, Sue Houghting, owner of The Book Mark in the city's Kingsway neighbourhood, announced she will close shop after 46 years in ... Read More »
January 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling
Kobo has released more details about Kobo Pulse, its new "social in-book e-reading experience" Essentially a social media tool, Kobo Pulse will allow Kobo users to connect with other people reading the same book, comment ... Read More »
September 27, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology