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The December issue of Q&Q: Books of the Year

The special Books of the Year issue of Quill & Quire is now en route to stores and mailboxes. It contains the magazine's annual selection of the titles that mattered the most over the past ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Kindlemania

By Leigh Anne Williams

By now you've no doubt seen the long press release – er, sorry, Newsweek cover story – that announced the launch of the Kindle, Amazon.com's new electronic reader. Elsewhere, though, bloggers and commentators have looked ... Read More »

November 21, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Doctorow to publishers: learn to share, dummies!

By Stuart Woods

With all the hoopla surrounding the launch of the Kindle, Amazon's portable e-book reader, it's easy to forget that for some authors the digital revolution has already happened. First among them would be science-fiction author ... Read More »

November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Todd Babiak vs. toddbabiak.com

By Stuart Woods

In a sardonic post announcing his reluctant embrace of the blogosphere, Edmonton author Todd Babiak (The Book of Stanley, The Garneau Block) expresses his instinctive distaste for self-serving author blogs: I used to make fun ... Read More »

November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Have your say on pricing, parity, and books

By Leigh Anne Williams

Whether you're a bookseller or publisher, we want to hear what you have to say on the pricing issue. What is your house or store doing? What needs to be done industry-wide? Who is benefiting ... Read More »

November 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Don't tase the locavore, bro!

By Stuart Woods

A litmus test for cultural literacy is whether or not the above sentence makes any sense at all. If not, you'll have to look up "tase" and "locavore" in an upcoming edition of the New ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Spider-Man, Superman conquer the Internet

By Stuart Woods

Ever notice that kids these days just aren't into ol' fashioned, ink-and-paper comic books? Well, apparently comics publishers have, and they're worried that new fangled technologies like the Web and video games are diverting kids ... Read More »

November 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Dealing with the loonie surge, continued

By Leigh Anne Williams

As the pricing crisis keeps reverberating throughout the book industry, more booksellers are unilaterally lowering their prices. In Waterloo, Ontario, Words Worth Books is now offering a 15% discount on all dual-priced books. According to ... Read More »

November 8, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Coupland goes viral, Staples tags along

By Stuart Woods

The final three YouTube video trailers for Douglas Coupland's new novel, The Gum Thief, were released last week. The series has been attracting steady traffic since the campaign started a month ago. CBC.ca reports: [Coupland's ... Read More »

October 30, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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