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Cheap books for everyone!

Bibliophiles who whimper every time they hear the damage at the bookstore counter can breathe a sigh of relief. "Book prices are going down. I can say that for sure," says Simon & Schuster Canada ... Read More »

May 17, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

Toronto Star apologizes for Bigge

By Scott MacDonald

The most fun In Other Media has had in about two weeks should end with a posting by Toronto Star books editor Dan Smith that went up on the newspaper's website yesterday. In the posting, ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

McLaren vs. Bigge: Round 2

By Scott MacDonald

Here at In Other Media, controversy makes us as giddy as the recipients of brand new puppies on Valentine's Day morning. In the last month or so, we linked to as many stories on James ... Read More »

February 14, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

A book is a live thing like your dog, says bookseller

By Scott MacDonald

An article posted on the Toronto Star website today profiles the Dog Lovers Bookshop, an online bookseller carrying new and used books on all subjects canine. Formerly a bricks-and-mortar store, the business is co-owned by ... Read More »

February 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Awards, immigrant lit, and Vanity Fair: Marchand's year in review

By Scott MacDonald

On the Toronto Star website, books columnist Philip Marchand begins a CanLit-year-in-review piece, somewhat surprisingly, with a lengthy discussion of British novelist Ian McEwan's Saturday. Set in the present, McEwan's issue-driven novel is used as ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Win an award. Sell some books?

By Scott MacDonald

We all know that Gillers and Governor General's Awards are boons for book sales in Canada. A book gets shortlisted, and its sales go up. A book wins, and its sales go up even further. ... Read More »

November 8, 2005 | Filed under: Awards, Bookselling

Marchand v. Marchand

By Scott MacDonald

Talking to oneself is something a lot of us do, but most of us don't publish the results. Toronto Star books columnist Phil Marchand does just this in a recent feature on the newspaper's website.Reading ... Read More »

November 1, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

May the coverage begin

By Scott MacDonald

It's only two days after the Governor General's Awards shortlists were announced, and media coverage has already been plentiful. The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand weighs in on the lack of overlap between this year's GG ... Read More »

October 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

That pan-industry Scotiabank Giller shortlist

By Leigh Anne Williams

There is, of course, plenty of Scotiabank Giller shortlist coverage in today's papers. The National Post weighs in with betting odds on the five nominees, ranging from 2-1 for favourite Lisa Moore to 75-1 for ... Read More »

September 29, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Remembering an early CanLit booster

By Leigh Anne Williams

Literature professor Gordon Roper, who died last month at the age of 93, is remembered in a Toronto Star obituary. A Peterborough native, Roper taught at the University of Chicago and then at U of ... Read More »

March 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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