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Talk books, knock boots

Over at The Tyee, Shannon Rupp has posted a lengthy response to a recent New York Times piece about bibliophiles judging potential mates by their reading material. Using a booklist to divine a man's character ... Read More »

April 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Coveting thy neighbour’s sales

By Jacob Sheen

According to Ben Kaplan of the National Post, the Canadian publishing industry is crazed with envy, obsessively checking up on their rivals' deals and sales numbers: Resentment among authors has been around since the first ... Read More »

April 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

DK goes green

By Jacob Sheen

As part of the U.K. publishing industry's eco-kick, Dorling Kindersley has released a series of green books “ greener than all those that have come before. The four new titles are printed using non-toxic glue ... Read More »

April 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The life and death of the thesaurus

By Nathan Whitlock

Slate has a fascinating, alluring, absorbing, beguiling, engrossing, enthralling, transfixing, and riveting essay about Peter Mark Roget and the thesaurus that bears his name: Originally published in 1852, having been compiled over the course of ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Q&Q wants to hear from you

By Scott MacDonald

Over the last few months, Q&Q has been collecting data for our upcoming industry salary survey, which will appear in our June issue. We've got a lot of facts and figures, but we'd also like ... Read More »

April 2, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

I see dead people(‘s libraries)

By Jacob Sheen

Library Thing, a social networking website for booklovers, is offering, for your browsing pleasure, the libraries of such luminaries as James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Adam Smith, mostly compiled from collections held by museums and ... Read More »

April 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Canada snags rare children’s book

By Jacob Sheen

From CBC.ca: When Canadian troops liberated western Holland from Nazi rule in May 1945, a 21-year-old Dutch artist named Mart Kempers was among the cheering throngs who greeted them. Before the year was out, Mr. ... Read More »

April 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood of Green Gables

By Nathan Whitlock

Margaret Atwood, writing in The Guardian, offers a lengthy take on Anne of Green Gables. Aside from giving a brief intro to the book to those who haven't read it “ and those who haven't ... Read More »

March 31, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Books in stereo

By Scott MacDonald

We're not sure if this is 100% accurate, but the Fox Business website is claiming that a new book “ The Book of 'Bert': High-Class Stars with Some High-Class 'Stache “ is the first book ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

The boy who would be Tintin

By Scott MacDonald

It looks as if Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson's planned series of Tintin films is one step closer to reaching fruition. According to the Guardian, a young man named Thomas Sangster has been selected to ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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