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Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

Some book-related links: Black Swan author not a fan of Blackberries, black president The Harry Potter theme park opening next year “ finally, ordinary children get a glimpse of the fictional educational institution they would ... Read More »

September 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

By Alison Potstra

Despite Google's "colonization of e-books," the advent of the Kindle Reader, and today's publication of The Lost Symbol, Harvard University's library director, Robert Darnton, argues in Publisher's Weekly that the book is not dead, nor shall ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: sexy Dan Brown, Mein Kampf manga, and the Electric Literature YouTube channel

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Is this the end of the Free Library of Philadelphia?: all free libraries in the city of brotherly love could close on Oct. 2 Dan Brown's latest literary endeavour hits shelves ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

By Steven W. Beattie

Colin Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan politician who was convicted in 1984 of brutally murdering his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson, has always maintained his innocence. He continues to do so in a new book, Final Appeal: Anatomy ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jane Campion to adapt Munro’s “Runaway”

By Steven W. Beattie

Academy Award-winning director Jane Campion is in Toronto for the 2009 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, where her new movie, Bright Star, about a love affair between John Keats and the girl next ... Read More »

September 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Google gets friendly, Quartet Press shuts down, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Google will allow rivals to sell copies of its digital books Upstart digital publisher Quartet Press shuts down before it ever really got started Marion Boyers, the venerable independent U.K. ... Read More »

September 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Lisa Moore still “unreadably Canadian,” Barbara Kay says

By Stuart Woods

National Post columnist Barbara Kay really has it in for novelist Lisa Moore. The one-sided feud began last July, when Kay responded to Post reporter Katherine Laidlaw's "gushy" profile of the two-time Giller Prize nominee, calling Moore's most ... Read More »

September 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Salman Rushdie: still banned, still a ladies’ man

By Nathan Whitlock

Given that the Man Booker shortlist has just been announced, and talk of the Bookers often brings to mind author Salman Rushdie, it'd be interesting to know what he's up to these days. Well, there's ... Read More »

September 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Fall blockbuster books, vampires, and “glowy magic”

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Proof the world is going to hell: rapper 50 Cent writes "motivational philosophy" in a new book sporting an eerily Biblical cover Atwood, Munro, and Coupland, oh my! The ... Read More »

September 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Layoffs at Random House, M&S as foreign rights sales are outsourced

By Stuart Woods

Both Random House of Canada and McClelland & Stewart are discontinuing their rights departments, announcing today that going forward, the majority of subsidiary rights activities for both firms will be handled by The Cooke Agency ... Read More »

September 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Bookmarks: Blackberry-hating, Harry Potterland, and flying a kite with Khaled Hosseini

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

Bookmarks: sexy Dan Brown, Mein Kampf manga, and the Electric Literature YouTube channel

Saskatchewan government goes after profits from Thatcher book

Jane Campion to adapt Munro’s “Runaway”

Bookmarks: Google gets friendly, Quartet Press shuts down, and more

Lisa Moore still “unreadably Canadian,” Barbara Kay says

Salman Rushdie: still banned, still a ladies’ man

Bookmarks: Fall blockbuster books, vampires, and “glowy magic”

Layoffs at Random House, M&S as foreign rights sales are outsourced

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