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Amazon’s rising monopoly

Over at Slate, technology columnist Farhad Manjoo offers an analysis of how the Kindle 2 skews the emerging market for e-books in Amazon's favour, to the detriment of authors, publishers, libraries, chain bookstores, indie bookstores, ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin rakes in cash for ailing Torstar

By Scott MacDonald

Harlequin parent company Torstar has just released its fourth-quarter results for 2008, and things look pretty bad: the company lost $211.2-million during the period, mostly via its stake in CTV/Globemedia. The one bright spot for ... Read More »

February 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Shortcovers set to launch tonight

By Scott MacDonald

While nerdy Americans await delivery of their Kindle 2s, nerdy Canadians can console themselves by trying Indigo's new Shortcovers service. The ambitious e-book service “ which allows users to download titles to their cellphones or ... Read More »

February 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Australia’s Christopher Paolini

By Eric Emin Wood

Books written by teenage authors are nothing new, of course (S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Gordon Korman's This Can't Be Happening At McDonald Hall come to mind), but it's still rare to see an entire ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The battle over robot toothbrushes

By Eric Emin Wood

Two weeks ago we blogged about Scholastic's controversial misuse of its book clubs, but it would appear that was a mere footnote compared to the uproar generated by the company's Klutz division, which has published ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

R.I.P. Scott Symons, 1933-2009

By Q&Q Staff

Author Scott Symons died Monday at the age of 75. He was best known for his debut novel, Place d'Armes. Originally published in 1967 by McClelland & Stewart, the novel is remembered for its groundbreaking ... Read More »

February 23, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The Frankfurt experience, captured in florid prose

By Stuart Woods

In case you haven't already seen it, the latest Harper's cover story (subscription only) is a candid, fly-on-the-wall account of the Frankfurt Book Fair, notable for journalist Gideon Lewis-Kraus's florid portraits of industry heavyweights (notorious ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

By Stuart Woods

Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature in Dubai earlier this week over concerns of censorship, Margaret Atwood decides she'll ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Philip K. Dick’s widow revives his final novel

By Scott MacDonald

According to The New York Times, the widow of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick has reworked his last, unfinished novel, The Owl in Daylight, and is self-releasing it through a print-on-demand publishing service. Tessa Dick, ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Interview: Tony Burgess talks about Pontypool

By Eric Emin Wood

Open Book Toronto has posted this video interview with Ontario author Tony Burgess, whose 1998 novel, Pontypool Changes Everything, was recently turned into a movie. Look for a story on Pontypool director Bruce McDonald - and his love ... Read More »

February 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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