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Etiquette advice for Google Book Search

Dan Blacharski, a columnist for ITworld.com, has weighed in on the Microsoft vs. Google book search debate, pointing out that while it is fashionable to bash Microsoft as a corporate bully, the Microsoft Live Book ... Read More »

March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The Man vs. the Boss

By Leigh Anne Williams

American politicians keep on fighting over Bruce Springsteen lyrics. A memoir by Tom DeLay, the controversial former Republican whip, is about to be released under the title No Retreat, No Surrender. As the ABC News ... Read More »

March 15, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The muse who refused to die (or, so much depends upon a correct diagnosis)

By Leigh Anne Williams

In one of the week's stranger stories, a lost William Carlos Williams poem has been donated to Southwest Missouri State University. Entitled "About a Little Girl," it was written for a teenager whom Williams – ... Read More »

March 15, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Information management

By Nathan Whitlock

Though there is hardly a lack of books about what's gone wrong with the Bush administration and its invasion of Iraq, access to information about the president became much more difficult for authors and historians ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text?

By Nathan Whitlock

Readers who have, in the course of literature studies or even inadvertently in a conversation over too much coffee or red wine in a café, stumbled into the thorny question of "literary criticism – what ... Read More »

March 9, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Misery loves company

By Alison Jones

As reported in an article from the Independent, "misery literature" is gaining in popularity, especially in the form of memoirs. Last year, the bestselling memoir in the UK, Behind Closed Doors by Jenny Tomlin, which ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Marquezapalooza

By Alison Jones

Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a lot to celebrate, reports the CBC. The author turns 80 today, and this year also marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of his classic novel One Hundred ... Read More »

March 6, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Sympathy for the pedophile

By Leigh Anne Williams

When the third question in an author interview is "Are you suggesting that having sexual feelings for little girls is normal?" you know the writer's new book isn't your typical CanLit meditation on memory and ... Read More »

March 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Jane Austen more popular than Jesus in Britain

By Nathan Whitlock

The BBC reports that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice topped a survey of more than 2,000 British book lovers as the book they just couldn't live without, besting The Bible, which was sixth from the ... Read More »

March 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

ReganBooks gone, but catalogue lives on

By Leigh Anne Williams

Parent company HarperCollins may have shut down ReganBooks late last year, but the defunct imprint has issued a ghostly transmission in the form of its summer 2007 catalogue, which hit the Q&Q home office this ... Read More »

March 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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