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Obama, Rumsfeld books set for winter release

Simon & Schuster unveiled the cover for O: A Presidential Novel, an anonymously authored novel about U.S. president Barack Obama. The cover features a gold "O" bookended by a pair of protruding ears against a ... Read More »

January 11, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Borders on the brink, but Kobo continues to grow

By Stuart Woods

A year ago, in the week following Christmas, Canadian publishers and distributors were greeted with the dismaying news that one of the country's leading bookstore chains, McNally Robinson Booksellers, was significantly scaling back its operations, ... Read More »

January 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: WSJ’s Weekend Edition debuts; DeLillo wins PEN/Saul Bellow; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: Reviewing the Wall Street Journal's new Weekend Edition Dying author searches for someone to complete his last work Don DeLillio wins PEN/Saul Bellow award for American fiction (as if he needed it) ... Read More »

September 27, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: Oprah and Franzen all but confirmed; WSJ book section slammed; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: MobyLives breaks out the smoking gun: a copy of Freedom with an Oprah sticker New Wall Street Journal book section sparks conflict-of-interest concerns Michael Lewis tops Business Book of the Year Award ... Read More »

September 16, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Wall Street Journal starts book review section

By Stuart Woods

Bucking the trend of ever-declining books coverage, The Wall Street Journal will launch its first-ever book review section in the coming weeks. According to The New York Observer, which broke the news, the standalone section ... Read More »

September 9, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Copyright holders “greedy” say Woodlief, Curtis

By Steven W. Beattie

In a July 9 Wall Street Journal article, Tony Woodlief argues that current practices for securing permission to reprint copyrighted material are too intricate and costly to survive. He cites his own experience writing a ... Read More »

July 19, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: a small town book tour, inappropriate books for kids, and Walt Whitman selling jeans

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from across the Web: Test your celebrity poet knowledge over at Details and guess which verses have been written by Michael Jackson, Mr. Spock, Jewel, or William Butler Yeats Battle of the sexes, poetry ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Your e-book speculation for the day

By Eric Emin Wood

It's a shame Canadians still can't experience the apparent bliss that is Amazon's Kindle 2 (despite the release of that iPhone app that would doubtless work perfectly well on Canadian models), but that hasn't stemmed ... Read More »

April 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: historical vampires, Nabokov’s last work, and forgotten Pulitzers

By Eric Emin Wood

Sundry links from around the Web: The New York Times looks at established authors who write well into old age. The co-author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies announces his next book: Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter. ... Read More »

April 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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