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Julie Wilson’s Indigo entente

Embattled lit blogger Julie Wilson, who was kicked out of a Toronto Indigo location earlier this week while doing research for her website Seen Reading, has come to an understanding with Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Moore on Barthelme, Updike on Cheever, plus more shakeups in the U.S. retail sector

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Lorrie Moore reviews the new Donald Barthelme biography (you can hear her thoughts here). The late John Updike had an early look at the John Cheever biography. Apparently, one ... Read More »

March 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Shopping lists, the iPhone Kindle app, and the $1-million French novel

By Eric Emin Wood

For those who thought the old adage was a joke: William S. Burroughs's shopping list showed up on eBay (and was purchased for $400). Do female novelists write about sex less skillfully than men? Author ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Killing trees en route to a digital future

By Eric Emin Wood

In its mad quest to digitize every book ever written, Google has taken to mounting one of the widest-reaching print ad campaigns in history. As part of its class action settlement (which we blogged about ... Read More »

March 4, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Seen Reading busted by Indigo

By Steven W. Beattie

In what has to qualify as the most absurd power-trip this Quillblogger has seen in a long, loooooong time, an overzealous Indigo employee apparently prevented Julie Wilson, administrator of the popular blog Seen Reading, from ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Now playing on an iPhone near you…

By Eric Emin Wood

Turns out the fastest growing category on Apple's iTunes app store isn't games or music, but books. At least, in terms of "unique applications" (i.e. individual titles). As the O'Reilly Radar points out, "releasing an e-book ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Signs the world is coming to an end, #10,135

By Eric Emin Wood

One of the most tragic aspects of the publishing industry is recognizing the years of labour, research, networking, and luck that go into getting something onto shelves “ and then watching an idiot like this ... Read More »

March 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

By Steven W. Beattie

CBC Radio's annual battle of the books, Canada Reads, kicks off today with five celebrity panelists each defending one Canadian novel they think that Canada should read. Each day this week, one novel gets knocked ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

By Stuart Woods

Last week, Q&Q reported on new federal funding guidelines that could imperil Canada's small literary and arts magazines, by limiting Canadian Heritage money to publications with annual paid circulations of at least 5,000. Now, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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