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Shane Koyczan’s anti-bullying poem goes viral

B.C. poet and author Shane Koyczan's animated video-poem, To this Day, has gone viral in just three days, with more than two million hits on YouTube. The spoken-word poem, which rails against bullying, grew from Koyczan's personal ... Read More »

February 22, 2013 | Filed under: Book news

Shit Girls Say scores book deal with Harlequin

By Sue Carter

Following in the footsteps of Justin Halpern's Shit My Dad Says, the popular Twitter feed and YouTube series Shit Girls Say is the latest Internet meme to be turned into a book. Created by Toronto ... Read More »

April 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

By Steven W. Beattie

It's like trying to cook when there are little children around. That's the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old system administrator in Atlanta, regarding the experience of reading a book on the Kindle Fire. ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Meet Sean Ohlenkamp, creator of the viral video, The Joy of Books

By Sue Carter

Sean Ohlenkamp's animation of books cavorting in Toronto's Type Books has received over 27,000 hits on YouTube since it was posted yesterday. Quillblog spoke to Ohlenkamp, an art director at Lowe Roche advertising agency, about ... Read More »

January 10, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling

Daily book biz round-up: white Twilight; How to be Alone; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: Either Amazon, Apple, or B&N is lying about their share of the e-book market Twilight novels get virginal white covers for Christmas PEI poet breaks through on YouTube with How to be ... Read More »

August 10, 2010 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

By Steven W. Beattie

The Huffington Post has taught Quillblog a new word. "Metrophobia" is not an aversion to riding the Paris subway or to well-coiffed men; it refers to a fear of poetry. And apparently, this affliction is ... Read More »

January 18, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the planet's bestselling authors, J.K. "I'll kick Stephenie Meyer's ass" Rowling and John Grisham, are among several authors whose books have apparently been illegally uploaded to a San Francisco-based website that promotes itself ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: YouTube

Shane Koyczan’s anti-bullying poem goes viral

Shit Girls Say scores book deal with Harlequin

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

Meet Sean Ohlenkamp, creator of the viral video, The Joy of Books

Daily book biz round-up: white Twilight; How to be Alone; and more

Fear of poetry waning, and the Globe opens the BÃ¶k on lipograms

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

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