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Bookmarks: bookstore burns, novelist strike fizzles, and more

Some book-related links: Barnes & Noble catches fire, headline writer gets chance to make literary reference (Wood TV) Novelist strike fizzles (The Onion) Forget fake memoirs “ are books ever true? (The New Yorker) Five ... Read More »

March 17, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Harry Potter twofer

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Los Angeles Times: Warner Bros. Pictures and the producers behind the $4.5-billion film franchise featuring the beloved boy wizard will split the seventh and final novel in the J.K. Rowling series into two ... Read More »

March 13, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Looking for a change?

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Bibliographic Manager - BookNet Canada (Toronto, ON) Administrative Assistant - Raincoast Books (Vancouver, BC) General Books Manager - McGill University Bookstore (Montreal, QC) Permission Liaison - Access Copyright (Toronto, ... Read More »

March 12, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

A wondrous news brief from the NBCC

By Stuart Woods

The National Book Critics Circle handed out its annual book awards on Thursday, and among those honoured was Junot Diaz for his debut novel, The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao “ a tragicomic family ... Read More »

March 7, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

C is for Camus and cookies

By Jacob Sheen

Jane McGonigal, whom MIT's Technology Review named one of the top 35 innovators changing the world, is currently traveling around the world using cookies to spell out Albert Camus' essay The Myth of Sisyphus. Her ... Read More »

March 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Judith Regan sued by her own former lawyers

By Nathan Whitlock

From USA Today: Former book publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was sued Monday for legal fees by the firm that prepared her lawsuit against HarperCollins LLC after the publishing company fired her. In court papers, Dreier ... Read More »

March 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Nazi-looted books need a home

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Jewish Chronicle: An international project has been launched to reunite thousands of books looted by Nazis with their owners or their descendants. The Commission for Looted Art in London and the Nuremberg Municipal ... Read More »

February 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Rowling sees fan-written Potter lexicon as exploitation

By Nathan Whitlock

From Reuters: Billionaire Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling would feel "exploited" if a fan's unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series was published, she said in court papers made public on Thursday. Steve Vander ... Read More »

February 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Biography of B.C. MP drops political bombshell

By Nathan Whitlock

The upcoming biography of the late Chuck Cadman, the independent MP from B.C. who held the deciding vote on the 2005 Liberal government's budget, contains a political bombshell in the form of accusations that Cadman ... Read More »

February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

The iBook of Life

By Nathan Whitlock

From The New York Times: Imagine the Book of All Species: a single volume made up of one-page descriptions of every species known to science. On one page is the blue-footed booby. On another, the ... Read More »

February 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

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