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If your environmental consciousness has been awakened to the point that you get an uneasy feeling as you sit in the shade of some grand tree reading a book printed on what you are now ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

U.S. sanctions stall preservation of Hemingway's home

By Nathan Whitlock

U.S. sanctions against Cuba are hindering efforts to restore Ernest Hemingway's home there, The Guardian reports. His Cuban estate, known as Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), is already a museum that has been partially restored with ... Read More »

July 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Harry Potter and the Event Rules and Regulations

By Leigh Anne Williams

With the release of the final Harry Potter novel mere days away, the media frenzy is in full force. In The Globe and Mail on the weekend, publishing reporter James Adams looks at Canadian Potter ... Read More »

July 16, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Harry Potter and "Don't Stop Believin'"

By Leigh Anne Williams

Pottermania is revving up, and Maclean's books columnist Brian Bethune has a thoughtful cover story about the imminent finale of the series. The burning question, of course, is whether Rowling will allow her hero to ... Read More »

July 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The wisdom of crowds?

By Leigh Anne Williams

Remember that old joke about the new-to-the-industry suit who asks his publishing colleagues why they don't publish only bestsellers? Well, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki suggests – a little optimistically, perhaps – that we ... Read More »

July 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian authors' playlists

By Leigh Anne Williams

Speaking of books and music, another Canadian author has provided a playlist for the American music blog Largehearted Boy. That blog's "Book Notes" feature invites authors to list songs that were meaningful during the writing ... Read More »

June 28, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The not-so-great rock and roll novel

By Leigh Anne Williams

Fiction about rock music is an ever-reliable subject for bookchat (see past Quillblog entries such as this one). Latest up is Tom Cox in The Times, who wonders why rock never seems to translate well ... Read More »

June 28, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Brown's Diana book slammed as "over-blown and over-hyped"

By Nathan Whitlock

The Guardian is running an abridged version of a review by Sarah Bradford of Tina Brown's Diana Chronicles, a piece that was originally written for The Spectator but rejected for unspecified reasons. Bradford wrote her ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Court rules that authorial persona was fraud

By Nathan Whitlock

A jury has decided that author Laura Albert's use of the alter ego/pseudonym JT LeRoy constitutes fraud, The New York Times reports. Albert published her novel Sarah in 2000 under the assumed name of JT ... Read More »

June 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Waterstone's display fees revealed!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Sometimes it's fun to be reminded that what's considered business as usual within the book industry is shocking and distasteful to civilians hearing about it for the first time. In the U.K., the Times Online ... Read More »

June 20, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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