by Steven W. Beattie

Scott Turow responds to U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust threat

At the end of last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Department of Justice was looking into the possibility of filing an antitrust lawsuit against five major publishers “ Simon & Schuster, ... Read More »

March 12, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Fire damages New Star Books offices: arson suspected

By Steven W. Beattie

The CBC is reporting that arson investigators are looking into a suspicious fire that damaged the East Vancouver offices of New Star Books. Sprinklers in the building contained the flames but the business suffered extensive ... Read More »

March 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Andrew Westoll wins the Charles Taylor Prize

By Steven W. Beattie

The $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction was awarded to Andrew Westoll for his book The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and Recovery at a ceremony in Toronto this afternoon. ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Awards

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

By Steven W. Beattie

It's like trying to cook when there are little children around. That's the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old system administrator in Atlanta, regarding the experience of reading a book on the Kindle Fire. ... Read More »

March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Indigo boycotts books published by Amazon

By Steven W. Beattie

What began as a "simmering feud" during the Christmas selling season, when Amazon launched a promotion offering users discounts for purchasing products scanned in bricks-and-mortar stores, has escalated into "full-scale war," according to an article ... Read More »

February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Wislawa Szymborska dead at 88

By Steven W. Beattie

Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the "Mozart of poetry," died in her hometown of Krakow on Wednesday. From the Washington Post: She has been called both deeply political and playful, ... Read More »

February 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Repurposing old books (or just reading them)

By Steven W. Beattie

It's not an easy time to be a book. Prey to the depredations of digital books that offer convenience and (theoretical) low cost, the traditional paper-and-ink book is beleaguered and battling cultural irrelevance. So what ... Read More »

January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology, Libraries

Spring preview 2012: Canadian fiction, poetry, and graphica

By Steven W. Beattie

In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. NOVELS Vincent Lam won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut, the short-story collection Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. His follow-up is ... Read More »

January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Preview

Novel becomes a bestseller despite author’s anonymity

By Steven W. Beattie

"During the first weeks of spring 1974, when Jingqiu was still at senior high school, she and three other students were selected to take part in a project to compile a new school textbook." So ... Read More »

January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

New Jane Austen family papers made available for public viewing

By Steven W. Beattie

The good news is that a slate of Jane Austen family books, previously available only to academics, has been digitized and is being offered for viewing by members of the public. The bad news, depending ... Read More »

December 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Scott Turow responds to U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust threat

Fire damages New Star Books offices: arson suspected

Andrew Westoll wins the Charles Taylor Prize

Amazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction

Indigo boycotts books published by Amazon

Wislawa Szymborska dead at 88

Repurposing old books (or just reading them)

Spring preview 2012: Canadian fiction, poetry, and graphica

Novel becomes a bestseller despite author’s anonymity

New Jane Austen family papers made available for public viewing

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