The Toronto Public Library is preparing to test a yearlong staff-less pilot system at two of its branches. Scheduled to launch in the fall, the project will extend the operational hours of the Swansea and ... Read More »
March 20, 2017
Nathan Maharaj, senior director of merchandising for Kobo, is presenting a talk on March 24 at BookNet Canada's annual Tech Forum conference titled "Bionic Bookselling." Quill & Quire spoke to Maharaj about the future of discoverability and ... Read More »
March 20, 2017
While speaking to a group of business leaders, policymakers, and analysts at The Economist’s Canada Summit last June, Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn suggested that, as Canadians, “we are comfortable with the idea that books ... Read More »
March 20, 2017
Laksa Media has acquired world rights to The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound, a collection of speculative fiction focused around the theme of caregiving, edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law. Contributors ... Read More »
March 17, 2017
Nobel Laureate poet and playwright Derek Walcott has died. (St. Lucia Star) "Books over booze" with these 15 contemporary Irish writers. (LitHub) Louise Erdrich and Matthew Desmond win National Book Critics Circle Awards. (Los Angeles ... Read More »
March 17, 2017 | Filed under: Book links
Acclaimed Ojibway author and journalist Richard Wagamese was working on at least two manuscripts before he died on March 10. One was a new novel for Penguin Random House, the first since 2014's Medicine Walk ... Read More »
March 16, 2017
Poetry sales rose dramatically last year, thanks to Rupi Kaur's blockbuster debut collection milk and honey. According to a new report by BookNet Canada, sales in the category were up 79 per cent from 2015, ... Read More »
March 15, 2017
Harlequin is making a foray into the narrative non-fiction market with a new imprint, Hanover Square Press. Hanover Square – the name inspired by the Lower Manhattan area known during the 18th century as "Printing House ... Read More »
March 13, 2017
Métis poet Katherena Vermette has won a Canadian Screen Award for her National Film Board short documentary, This River. This River follows Vermette as she accompanies a member of Drag the Red, an organization that searches ... Read More »
March 13, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
Vancouver author Vivek Shraya, Ojibwa-Cree elder Ma-Nee Chacaby, and Halifax novelist Darren Greer are among the finalists for this year's Publishing Triangle Awards. The New York–based prizes honour LGBTQ fiction, non-fiction, and poetry published in ... Read More »
March 13, 2017 | Filed under: Awards
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