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Book Links: Heritage minister Melanie Joly suggests CBC should take risks like Vice; kids’ publisher hits record profits after leaving Amazon

Heritage minister Mélanie Joly thinks CBC should take more risks – like Vice. (CBC) Molly Crabapple's heartbreaking interviews and portraits of Syrian refugees. (Vice) Cash in, I do: First lines of famous novels rewritten in Yoda syntax. ... Read More »

December 18, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Australia cuts arts funding, book council; U.K. protests library closures; Star Wars Kama Sutra?

By Becky Robertson

Australia cuts $52.5-million in arts funding, shuttering national book council. (The Sydney Morning Herald) U.K. librarians – supported by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and other authors – take to the streets to protest library closures. ... Read More »

December 17, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Chris Hadfield to pen picture book; “ism” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year; inner space’s smallest heroes coming to big screen

By Becky Robertson

Merriam-Webster fails to look up the definition of "suffix," makes "ism" its word of the year. (NPR) The number of Chicago high schools with a 90 per cent or more African American student body that ... Read More »

December 16, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: BBC doc calls Lewis Carroll a repressed pedophile; Wab Kinew to host Canada Reads; watch Spielberg’s The BFG teaser

By Becky Robertson

Steven Spielberg is adapting Roald Dahl's The BFG for film: watch the teaser. (Flavorwire) BBC is in hot water after claiming Lewis Carroll may have been a "repressed pedophile" in recent documentary. (The Telegraph) Wab ... Read More »

December 15, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: The Force is strong in this marketing machine; homeless man writes bestseller; how the book industry invented holiday shopping

By Becky Robertson

Retroactive backstory almost ruined Star Wars (Lit Reactor) ... ... but creating a "forever" franchise is good marketing. (Publishing Perspectives) Homeless man writes a bestseller about his life on the streets. (The Telegraph) Salman Rushdie ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Iceland, arguably the most literary country; Kobo takes over Flipkart; books are longer than they used to be

By Becky Robertson

The vice-director of the Icelandic Publishing Association on the annual "Christmas book flood" in s country where one in ten residents will publish a book in their lifetime. (2Seas) A new study finds that books ... Read More »

December 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Audiobooks are the new print-killer; banning Kermit the Frog; a £230 dinner at Hogwarts

By Becky Robertson

Forget ebooks – audiobooks are outselling print books, sometimes as much as four times more than their written counterparts. (MarketWatch) Tea Party chair requests U.N.-sponsored Kermit the Frog book be banned for depictions of war, ... Read More »

December 10, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Russians (voluntarily) reading War and Peace in 60 hours straight; George Saunders reads a bedtime story; what would Michael Stipe read?

By Becky Robertson

Russia has 1,300 people – including an orbiting cosmonaut – (voluntarily) reading Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace live on the web in a 60-hour marathon. (BBC) Amazon releases list of its bestselling books for 2015. ... Read More »

December 9, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Atwood urges for Nobel Laureate’s release from prison; new Oprah memoir forthcoming

By Becky Robertson

Margaret Atwood among writers appealing to the Chinese government for release of Nobel Prize–winning poet Liu Xiabo on the seventh anniversary of his arrest. (The Guardian) New York Public Library opens reading-recommendations booth. (Galleycat) Mexico ... Read More »

December 8, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Book Links: Toronto‘s peddling book pedlar; the easy way to smell like an old bookstore

By Becky Robertson

A rude rejection letter could cost you the next J.K. Rowling or George Orwell, U.K. publisher warns. (The Indepedent) It beats getting socks for Christmas: all Swedish 16-year-olds to receive free copy of Chimamnda Ngozi ... Read More »

December 7, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

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Book Links: Heritage minister Melanie Joly suggests CBC should take risks like Vice; kids’ publisher hits record profits after leaving Amazon

Book Links: Australia cuts arts funding, book council; U.K. protests library closures; Star Wars Kama Sutra?

Book Links: Chris Hadfield to pen picture book; “ism” is Merriam-Webster’s word of the year; inner space’s smallest heroes coming to big screen

Book Links: BBC doc calls Lewis Carroll a repressed pedophile; Wab Kinew to host Canada Reads; watch Spielberg’s The BFG teaser

Book Links: The Force is strong in this marketing machine; homeless man writes bestseller; how the book industry invented holiday shopping

Book Links: Iceland, arguably the most literary country; Kobo takes over Flipkart; books are longer than they used to be

Book Links: Audiobooks are the new print-killer; banning Kermit the Frog; a £230 dinner at Hogwarts

Book Links: Russians (voluntarily) reading War and Peace in 60 hours straight; George Saunders reads a bedtime story; what would Michael Stipe read?

Book Links: Atwood urges for Nobel Laureate’s release from prison; new Oprah memoir forthcoming

Book Links: Toronto‘s peddling book pedlar; the easy way to smell like an old bookstore

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