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Book links round-up: The Atlantic defends public libraries, Maurice Sendak’s modesty, and more

The Atlantic's defence of public libraries Maurice Sendak to Dave Eggers: "My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions. New York Public Library asking 143,000 children to pay off fines ... Read More »

July 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Publishers to ship directly to Indigo stores this fall

By Sue Carter

Indigo Books & Music is asking publishers to send books directly to individual store locations for 10 weeks this fall while the company updates its distribution centre. Publishers Weekly reports: Indigo wrote to its vendors ... Read More »

July 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Upstream with the Fish Quill Poetry Boat

By Sue Carter

For the past couple of years VIA Rail Canada has been transporting troubadours across the country with its popular On-Board Musician program. Now, a group of poets are travelling and performing on Ontario's Grand River ... Read More »

July 27, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Calgary to establish poet laureate program

By Jason Spencer

Calgary City Council announced Monday that it is embarking on a program to select a poet laureate. According to Calgary Arts Development, an NGO that will be working with the city on developing, administering, and ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

By Natalie Samson

Three Canadian authors have made the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist, announced today. Alison Pick's Far to Go (House of Anansi Press, Q&Q's September 2010 cover profile), Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues (forthcoming from ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book links round-up: quixotic exhumations, lit reading longevity, and more

By Jason Spencer

Comic-Con 2011 literary highlight reel Archaeologists in Madrid to search for bones of Miguel de Cervantes Macmillan pays fine for bribing African schools to use their textbooks Why literary readings are still relevant Rolling Stone ... Read More »

July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

E-book apps for Apple lose e-bookstore links

By Natalie Samson

Big changes are underway in the e-book app world. Since Saturday, iOS (Apple's operating system for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) apps for Kobo, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Amazon's Kindle ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Book sales down “dramatically” in Q1 of 2011

By Steven W. Beattie

The bad news for booksellers just seems to keep coming. Today, Publishers Weekly reports that Canadian book sales "dropped dramatically" in the first quarter of 2011 according to figures released by BookNet Canada. The market ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Governor General’s Award winner Gloria Sawai dies at 78

By Steven W. Beattie

Quillblog was saddened to learn of the death of Gloria Sawai last Wednesday. The Alberta writer, whose single book, the short-story collection A Song for Nettie Johnson, beat out Carol Shields' Unless and Wayne Johnston's ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Atwood followers crash TPL petition website

By Natalie Samson

Margaret Atwood took to Twitter on Thursday to mobilize her 225,302 followers against the potential privatization and service cuts to the Toronto Public Library. The traffic resulting after @MargaretAtwood retweeted "Toronto's libraries are under threat ... Read More »

July 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

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Book links round-up: The Atlantic defends public libraries, Maurice Sendak’s modesty, and more

Publishers to ship directly to Indigo stores this fall

Upstream with the Fish Quill Poetry Boat

Calgary to establish poet laureate program

Pick, Edugyan, deWitt make Booker longlist

Book links round-up: quixotic exhumations, lit reading longevity, and more

E-book apps for Apple lose e-bookstore links

Book sales down “dramatically” in Q1 of 2011

Governor General’s Award winner Gloria Sawai dies at 78

Atwood followers crash TPL petition website

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