British Columbia librarians are one small step closer to achieving the goal of a fully digitized library system with the launch earlier this month of its B.C. Books Online project. Coordinated by a consortium of ... Read More »

BookExpo America kicked off in New York on Tuesday with a day-long series of professional development seminars, and one of the chief attractions was a standing-room only seminar in which a representative from Google talked ... Read More »

The online short-fiction magazine Joyland has joined forces with ECW Press to launch Joyland eBooks, which will publish three e-book only short fiction collections per year beginning this fall.  The first two titles are Letters ... Read More »

Independent booksellers across Canada have finally begun to receive their shipments of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Viking Canada), one of the most highly anticipated books of the season, but many ... Read More »

It’s not a secret that there’s no love lost between the Conservative Party of Canada and the CBC, but now it seems a Canadian author and political journalist has been caught in the fray. Last ... Read More »