by Stuart Woods

Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

In business, it always pays to know your competition. But does Indigo CEO Heather Reisman see Toronto mini-chain Type Books as competition? From Toronto Life: One summer Sunday afternoon, Type's Danforth digs received an auspicious ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

School’s in for children’s writers

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian is running a week-long series of how-to guides to writing, and today's theme is writing for kids. Dodging the larger question of whether or not writing can even be taught at all, a ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

By Stuart Woods

Globe and Mail television critic John Doyle used his column yesterday to go after Prime Minister Stephen Harper for his quip about ordinary Canadians and the excesses of fatcat artists. While the issue is only ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

By Stuart Woods

Two Canadian storytellers and one Nova Scotia literacy group are in the running for the world's richest children's literary prize. Ottawa kids' novelist Brian Doyle, Quebec author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, and Read to Me!, ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

The delicate art of audiobook casting

By Stuart Woods

Reporter Nate DiMeo argues that for all the advances of the U.S. audiobook industry, the art of choosing the right readers has yet to be mastered. In an article on Slate, he lists some of ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Two takes on censorship

By Stuart Woods

Responding to complaints by a Muslim creationist that its contents were defamatory and blasphemous, a Turkish court has banned Internet users from viewing Richard Dawkins' website. Meanwhile, here in North America, Scholastic has pulled all ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Don’t steal this textbook “ download it

By Stuart Woods

The Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam rails against the U.S. textbook industry, arguing that students who use illegal download sites like Textbook Torrents and thepiratebay.org are partly justified in doing so: As a writer, how ... Read More »

September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

By Stuart Woods

Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »

September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion

Event photos: The Man Game‘s Toronto launch

By Stuart Woods

The Toronto launch for Lee Henderson's debut novel happened on Wednesday, Sept. 3, at a This Is Not a Reading Series event at the Gladstone Hotel. The evening kicked off with a Henderson-led tutorial about ... Read More »

September 5, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Authors vs. funding cuts: the revolution will be artsy

By Stuart Woods

On Wednesday, the arts community gathered in a crowded Toronto theatre to denounce the $40-million in arts funding cuts announced by the Tories in recent weeks. According to the Toronto Star, the night's speakers, who ... Read More »

September 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

School’s in for children’s writers

Stephen Harper vs. the Gillers

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

The delicate art of audiobook casting

Two takes on censorship

Don’t steal this textbook “ download it

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

Event photos: The Man Game‘s Toronto launch

Authors vs. funding cuts: the revolution will be artsy

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