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Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »

September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion

J.K Rowling wins lawsuit; no HP Lexicon to be published

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Harry Potter really is the boy who lived - on and on, in lawsuits pitting J.K. Rowling against a now former fan. In the latest Rowling-related news, a federal judge blocked publication of The Harry ... Read More »

September 9, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Big deal for small (U.S.) publishers

By Stuart Woods

U.S. firm Perseus Books Group is offering small publishers a chance to access digital book technology with the launch of a new service. The New York Times reports: The new service, called Constellation, will allow ... Read More »

September 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Sarah Palin vs libraries

By Nathan Whitlock

There is already more than enough troubling and tawdry whoop-de-doo surrounding Sarah Palin, John McCain's pick for the vice-presidential slot, to make the whole circus worth watching, but this paragraph from a long article in ... Read More »

September 3, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

By Scott MacDonald

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is at the center of a burgeoning publishing world brouhaha, with Barnes & Noble on one side and Amazon.com on the other. According to the Associated Press: Chelsea Green Publishing, ... Read More »

August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Partisan publishing

By Stuart Woods

Slate columnist Timothy Noah takes on a new book by right-wing journalist Jerome R. Corsi, calling it an unambiguous smear-job against presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, ... Read More »

August 15, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Maureen Jennings, Elizabeth Hay, and others at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words

By Nathan Whitlock

Some pics from the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, which ran from July 16 - 19 in Moose Jaw. (Photos by Iden Ford/Courtesy of Dundurn Press.)Authors Maureen Jennings and Elizabeth Hay. (Note that Hay, possibly anticipating ... Read More »

July 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Forgery memoir was true, libraries need money, and past editors protest LATBR folding

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: A true memoir about a fraudulent life (The New York Times) Alberta libraries push for cash (Calgary Herald) Past editors of the Los Angeles Times Book Review protest folding (Editor & Publisher) ... Read More »

July 24, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Stephen King, book trailer judge

By Sara Forsyth

Dorchester Publishing and Circle of Seven productions are joining forces to create a contest for book-loving amateur filmmakers. Participants will create a book trailer for their favorite novel in Dorchester's imprint, SHOMI, a genre-blending, speculative ... Read More »

July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Potter for a quid

By Sara Forsyth

Today, Guardian blogger Nicholas Clee muses on the implications of selling the Harry Potter series at bargain basement prices. This is in light of British supermarket chain Asda's decision to sell Harry Potter and the ... Read More »

July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

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Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

J.K Rowling wins lawsuit; no HP Lexicon to be published

Big deal for small (U.S.) publishers

Sarah Palin vs libraries

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

Partisan publishing

Maureen Jennings, Elizabeth Hay, and others at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words

Bookmarks: Forgery memoir was true, libraries need money, and past editors protest LATBR folding

Stephen King, book trailer judge

Potter for a quid

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