According to The New York Times, the widow of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick has reworked his last, unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight, and is self-releasing it through a print-on-demand publishing service. Tessa Dick, ... Read More »
After agreeing to attend the Dubai-based Emirates Airline International Festival of Literature, Margaret Atwood has opted to stay home instead. Not only that, she won't even be attending by LongPen. Seems she's decided to make ... Read More »
February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Authors
Google flooded with book scanning compensation requests (CNet.com) Twenty years later, do Muslims regret the Rushdie fatwa? (BBC) Dan Brown ... Read More »
February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth ... Read More »
February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Awards
In the wake of poor holiday sales in brick-and-mortar bookstores in the U.S. and the U.K., Internet retailers are being accused of coming by their simultaneous sales success unfairly, via overzealous discounting. As reported by ... Read More »
February 4, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling
Remember Chesley Sully Sullenberger, the U.S. Airways pilot who became a media hero for shepherding all of his passengers to safety after his plane crash-landed in the Hudson River? Well, it looks like he wasn't ... Read More »
February 4, 2009
It looks like the rumors were true about The Washington Post's standalone book supplement. According to The New York Times, Book World will cease publication after Feb. 15. Book World was one of the last ... Read More »
Random House of Canada probably isn't making any friends at Reed Exhibitions. After having announced last fall that it would not be attending Reed's annual trade show, BookExpo Canada, in June “ a move that ... Read More »
January 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
A small St.Paul, Minnesota-based publisher is hoping to reap big rewards in the wake of Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony yesterday. Graywolf Press is the publisher of poet Elizabeth Alexander, who wrote and recited the inauguration ... Read More »
January 21, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news
Now that Michael Ignatieff is leader of the Official Opposition, a lot of his earlier priorities have probably fallen by the wayside, but The Globe and Mail is reporting that he has kept his word ... Read More »
January 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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