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Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

In business, it always pays to know your competition. But does Indigo CEO Heather Reisman see Toronto mini-chain Type Books as competition? From Toronto Life: One summer Sunday afternoon, Type's Danforth digs received an auspicious ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

School’s in for children’s writers

By Stuart Woods

The Guardian is running a week-long series of how-to guides to writing, and today's theme is writing for kids. Dodging the larger question of whether or not writing can even be taught at all, a ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

How many of these can you use today?

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

From the Times: It may appear agrestic to ask, but The Times is calling on its readers to come to the rescue of words that risk fading into caliginosity. Dictionary compilers at Collins have decided ... Read More »

September 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Too many prizes, book club picks, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Are there too many literary prizes? Richard Whitehead at the Times weighs the Booker against the rest. According to Indigo Books & Music, "Book Clubs are the New Dinner Party." Indigo has released a list ... Read More »

September 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The delicate art of audiobook casting

By Stuart Woods

Reporter Nate DiMeo argues that for all the advances of the U.S. audiobook industry, the art of choosing the right readers has yet to be mastered. In an article on Slate, he lists some of ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Two takes on censorship

By Stuart Woods

Responding to complaints by a Muslim creationist that its contents were defamatory and blasphemous, a Turkish court has banned Internet users from viewing Richard Dawkins' website. Meanwhile, here in North America, Scholastic has pulled all ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

What’s red and blue and read all over?

By Scott MacDonald

For all you American political junkies out there: Amazon.com has used its book sales data to create a nifty election-year map of the U.S., where they show which states are buying more "red" books, and ... Read More »

September 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Parsing Babar

By Scott MacDonald

New Yorker scribe Adam Gopnick has penned a nice, lengthy essay about the continuing controversy surrounding Babar, the titular hero of the popular children's book series. As Gopnick explains, people like the Chilean author Ariel ... Read More »

September 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

British lit prizes, reading habits, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

The shortlist for the Dylan Thomas Prize has been announced, and six young writers are in line to win the £60,000 (approximately $114,000 CAD) prize. The global award, given biennially, was established to promote writing ... Read More »

September 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

American novelist David Foster Wallace dead at age 46

By Steven W. Beattie

Some sad news from over the weekend: David Foster Wallace, whose mammoth, 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest was included in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923-2005, was found dead of an ... Read More »

September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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