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Cookbooks and thrillers are top-sellers in a crisis crunch

Reuters is reporting that in the face of a global financial crisis, people are looking to books for answers -- including cookbooks and thrillers. [Borders vice president for adult trade books Kathryn] Popoff said sales ... Read More »

October 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh dies

By Steven W. Beattie

The Bookseller is reporting that Pat Kavanagh, the British agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, has died. Kavanagh represented some heavy hitters in the literary world, including Joanna Trollope, John Irving, and William Trevor ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Mafiaboy is repentant … the Mafia, not so much

By Steven W. Beattie

There's a new book out by Michael Calce, aka Mafiaboy, the young internet hacker who caused turmoil eight years ago when he hacked some of the biggest websites around ” including Yahoo, eBay, and CNN ... Read More »

October 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Gay author denied a chance to speak to N.B. high schools

By Steven W. Beattie

Adam Alex Sanchez, an openly gay author whose book, Rainbow Boys, was included on the American Library Association's list of Best Books for Young Adults in 2002, has been refused the opportunity to speak to ... Read More »

October 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Watching Watchmen

By Scott MacDonald

Earlier this week, in New York, filmmaker Zack Snyder presented the first lengthy sneak preview of Watchmen, his adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark graphic novel. The preview was organized for a select group of media ... Read More »

October 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

What’s Omar Khadr reading?

By Nathan Whitlock

In a Toronto Star article about newly released reports on the life of Omar Khadr, journalist Michelle Shepherd notes that the Canadian Guatanamo Bay detainee "has read Life of Pi" and "loves To Kill a ... Read More »

October 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The future of e-readers: the iPhone?

By Stuart Woods

While technology analysts have been touting e-ink “ which mimics the glare-free quality of real ink on a page “ as the breakthrough that could push e-readers into the mainstream, Forbes is reporting that the ... Read More »

October 3, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Banned books

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

It's the American Library Association's Banned Books Week, and their website features lists of frequently challenged books covering various eras on their website. Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale is 37th on the ALA's list of the ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Your friendly neighbourhood … Stephen Colbert?

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Stephen Colbert is running for president - in the Marvel Universe. Signs proclaiming "Colbert for President" have been appearing recently in the background of various Marvel comics, and now Marvel has announced that Colbert will ... Read More »

September 30, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Sony Reader fails to wow them at WOTS

By Steven W. Beattie

In addition to the numerous author readings, signings, and stacks of books for sale at yesterday's Word on the Street festival, which drew an estimated 200,000 people to Queen's Park in Toronto, there was a ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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