The 2012 Lionel Gelber Prize has been awarded to Ezra F. Vogel's Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, published by Belknap Press, an imprint of Harvard University Press. Vogel's book about the history and ... Read More »
If the Toronto Public Library has its way, this spring's must-read book will be Maggie Helwig's Girls Fall Down (Coach House Books). The 2008 novel has been selected for this year's One Book initiative, a ... Read More »
February 21, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Libraries
In May, wildfires ravaged the town of Slave Lake in northern Alberta. The community of 7,000 residents returned from an evacuation notice to find the town's library, municipal government buildings, and radio station destroyed, plus ... Read More »
February 14, 2012 | Filed under: Libraries
Revving up for Valentine's Day? One of these best-selling romance titles may be just what Cupid ordered. For the two weeks ending Feb. 5: 1. The Next Always, Nora Roberts (Penguin, $18.50 pa, 9780425243213) 2. ... Read More »
February 13, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers
Penguin Group has announced it will no longer provide ebooks to OverDrive, effective immediately. With the termination of the relationship between the publisher and the U.S. digital content distributor, public libraries are effectively cut off ... Read More »
February 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology, Libraries
Carmen Aguirre came out victorious at this year's CBC Canada Reads. The B.C.-based author and playwright's memoir, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter (Douglas & McIntyre), about growing up in the underground among South ... Read More »
B.C. author Bernadette McDonald has won the 2012 American Alpine Literary Award. McDonald, founding vice-president of mountain culture at the Banff Centre and the author of seven books, has received the honour for her book ... Read More »
Just in time for the spring book season, a non-profit organization for self-published authors is getting an international roll-out. Headed up in London, England, by Orna Nass, an author and former literary agent, The Alliance ... Read More »
February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
A team at the University of Alberta has traced the province's first book publishing enterprise to a Catholic missionary and polyglot. In The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country (University of Alberta Press, 2010), ... Read More »
February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
It's no secret that Kobo, the e-reading company formerly owned by Indigo Books & Music, is betting big on the "social in-book e-reading experience" to set it apart from competitors such as Amazon's Kindle and ... Read More »
February 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology
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