Not long ago, e-book rights were mostly an afterthought for authors and publishers, barely worth haggling over when negotiating contracts. With the recent explosion of e-readers and smartphone reading apps, however, e-books are suddenly potential ... Read More »

Local Books Cost: Free What does it do? Modelled on find-and-dine restaurant apps such as LocalEats and UrbanSpoon, the Local Books app pinpoints nearby bookstores and libraries and book-related events. Users can also sort venues ... Read More »

To get a sense of how quickly the e-book market is evolving, consider the following tale of corporate reinvention. Last June, while chatting with CTV technology columnist Kris Abel, Indigo Books & Music CEO Heather ... Read More »

The Freckled Lion in Georgetown, Ontario, may be a children’s bookstore, but owner Kate Murray says parents have been keen to pick up one particular book for themselves. Local historian Richard E. Ruggle’s For Our ... Read More »

Undefeated, a novel about a young dancer’s jealousy of her rival, has become ?a top seller at Kelowna’s Mosaic Books. The book’s author, Kelowna resident Celeste Catena, was just nine years old when Penticton Writers ... Read More »

As it turns out, Roy MacSkimming’s 2007 novel Macdonald, about a dying Sir John A., wasn’t a one-off dip into the annals of prime ministerial lore, but the first instalment of a budding series. This ... Read More »