Today's news: More signs of the bookselling apocalypse: Barnes & Noble puts itself up for sale The Kids in the Hall's Scott Thompson to publish graphic novel Major job cuts at Octopus Justin Bieber calls ... Read More »

When the long weekend ends, book news resumes: Connecticut joins Texas in investigating Apple, Amazon for nefarious pricing practices Managing editor of Virginia Quarterly Review commits suicide Goons seize copies of Kim Jong Il bio ... Read More »

Get 'em while they're hot: Jonathan Franzen attempts to rehabilitate a lost classic Newt Gingrich's history of bogus book promotion Twitter hashtag results in explosion of unsolicited advice for publishers Penguin Group CEO John Makinson ... Read More »

Fun end-of-the-week reads: Microsoft seeks to patent the "virtual page turn" Video: James Franco promotes Gary Shteyngart's new book Canada's next Governor General was a minor character in Love Story! Did Warner Brothers lose money ... Read More »

Today's non-Penguin Canada related news: Indigo pushes books aside again, this time for in-store photo departments The Millions previews the remaining releases of 2010 Amazon screws over Barnes & Noble by secretly patenting dual-screen e-readers ... Read More »

The day's links: Martin Amis wants his biography done his way, or else The National Post defends John Metcalf from André Alexis Jonathan Franzen's follow-up to The Corrections succeeds "in a big way," says PW ... Read More »