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A bit of the old ultraviolence: kids’ edition

What's missing from children's books? Earnest messages about the evils of bullying and the importance of tolerance? Stories that build sensitivity for other cultures and races? Books that inculcate a sense of history? Not according ... Read More »

May 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Robert Charles Wilson and more in the June Q&Q

By Stuart Woods

Stephen King calls him the finest science fiction author now writing, but Robert Charles Wilson is hardly a household name in Canada. The June issue of Q&Q profiles an author at the height of his ... Read More »

May 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

No big bucks for Blagojevich book

By Stuart Woods

The idea that ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich could command an Obama-calibre advance for his planned memoir seemed like a perverse state of affairs, but justice has returned to the land. A bill introduced this ... Read More »

May 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

This week in Google news

By Stuart Woods

Depending on how you look at it, this week's breaking news regarding the Google Book Search settlement is either good news for libraries or another example of the Internet giant's bullying tactics. In an agreement ... Read More »

May 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Fearing the death of print? Dave Eggers will cheer you up!

By Suzanne Gardner

If you're in the publishing industry, surely you've had nightmares about the death of print. Dave Eggers, author and editor of McSweeney's, wants to calm your troubled mind and has promised to do so by ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Books and buildings

By Suzanne Gardner

The City of Toronto's Lit City initiative comes to a close this weekend, culminating with the 10th annual Doors Open Toronto city-wide open house, featuring close to 175 sites of architectural, historical, cultural, or social ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Can a commercial printer invoke religion in order to refuse services?

By Suzanne Gardner

A blog post on Torontoist yesterday looked at Toronto printer Harmony Printing, and its refusal to produce author Adam Bourret's autobiographical graphic novel I'm Crazy, a story that deals with "histories, secrets, obsessive compulsive disorder, ... Read More »

May 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Print-on-demand titles outnumbered traditional books in 2008

By Suzanne Gardner

Publishers Weekly is reporting that U.S. book production both rose and fell in 2008, according to statistics just released from Bowker's Books in Print database. While the number of new and revised titles released by ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Oddest book titles, evocriticism, and more

By Suzanne Gardner

A few links from around the Web to ease you back into work after the long weekend: As Britain's Diagram Prize launches its search for the oddest book title of the last 30 years, the ... Read More »

May 19, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Are litmags facing more funding cuts?

By Stuart Woods

Canada's beleaguered literary magazines, which could see significant funding cuts as early as April 2010, could be faced with further cuts as a result of an ongoing strategic review of the Canada Council for the ... Read More »

May 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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