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Gargantuan Stephen King novel emerges after 25-year incubation

It took him 25 years from conception to completion, but Stephen King is finally ready to publish his hulking unwieldy boulder-like epic novel Under the Dome, described as an allegorical tale about a town in ... Read More »

April 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Toronto’s newest used bookstore, and more

By Stuart Woods

Re: Reading, Toronto's newest used bookstore, opens its doors on Saturday. (The store is located on the Danforth, not far from area stalwart Book City, as well as newcomers Type Books and Circus.) The shortlists ... Read More »

April 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Proofreading the public domain

By Stuart Woods

At last month's BookNet Canada technology forum, one memorable moment came during a talk by Montrealer Hugh McGuire, one of the co-organizers of BookCamp Toronto and the founder of LibriVox, an online repository of free, ... Read More »

April 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: The 2008 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

By Stuart Woods

Friends, family, and a handful of industry types gathered in Toronto on Wednesday to hand out the 2008 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, awarded to unpublished authors under the age of 35. For ... Read More »

April 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: R. Crumb’s Genesis and a double helping of George Orwell

By Eric Emin Wood

Sundry links from around the web: Underground comics artist Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat) has completed his take on the Book of Genesis. To the surprise of no one, publishing execs are not immune to ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The IMDB of publishing?

By Eric Emin Wood

The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Apparently, you can judge a book by its cover…

By Eric Emin Wood

...Or at least by its title. The Bookseller magazine has announced its "winner" of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year: The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais. The book in ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Arrr! J.K. Rowling and John Grisham fall victim to pirates

By Steven W. Beattie

Two of the planet's bestselling authors, J.K. "I'll kick Stephenie Meyer's ass" Rowling and John Grisham, are among several authors whose books have apparently been illegally uploaded to a San Francisco-based website that promotes itself ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Jacob McArthur Mooney wins Harbourfront’s Poetry Idol

By Steven W. Beattie

Last Wednesday, Authors at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto sponsored an open stage poetry smackdown at which 20 poets under the age of 35 were invited to read their poetry in front of an audience and ... Read More »

March 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

New tax credits for publishers in Ontario budget

By Scott MacDonald

For people in the book biz, the big news out of yesterday's Ontario budget announcement was that books are exempt from the new harmonized sales tax. There were also, however, a few tweaks worth noting ... Read More »

March 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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