Defences of the old-skool paper-and-ink book against the nefarious Borg-like proponents of the e-book too often sound, for all their passion and sincerity, as if they should be read aloud by Wilfred Brimley, or even ... Read More »
"Few people who spend much time in the literary world emerge without at least one paranoid conspiracy theory," writes Mark Lawson in The Guardian. Hard to disagree with that. His own theory as to what ... Read More »
January 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries, Opinion
A fitting coda to the media's handwringing this year over all things literary is Caleb Crain's piece in The New Yorker, ominously titled "Twilight of the Books," which looks at how declining literacy is affecting ... Read More »
December 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »
The National Post is reporting that a settlement between the Toronto Public Library and its labour union is essentially reversing the savings from the Sunday closure of 16 of the city's libraries, announced earlier this ... Read More »
The answer is "yes," according to Bits, The New York Times's tech blog: For years it was impossible to even suggest that Amazon buy eBay because eBay's market value was three or four times that ... Read More »
December 17, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion
Reactions to Amazon's new e-reader generally fall into two opposing camps: on the one hand, there are those who are shocked and appalled at the very notion, while others believe a wonderful new era has ... Read More »
The Hollywood Reporter has announced the 13 projects chosen for the Sundance Film Festival's highly competitive January Screenwriters Lab, and among the lucky winners is Vancouver author Ryan Knighton. Knighton has fashioned his 2006 memoir ... Read More »
December 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
From The Telegraph: She wrote her first self-help book at the age of nine. Now, at the grand old age of 12, Libby Rees has completed her second. She finished At Sixes And Sevens, which ... Read More »
December 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
From The Baltimore Sun: Days after its publication, a largely positive review of the film version of The Golden Compass that appeared in Catholic newspapers across the country was retracted this week by the United ... Read More »
December 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
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