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Otto Frank's letters found

An article on CBC.ca reports that The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research recently discovered letters written by Otto Frank, revealing his efforts to move his family to safety during the Second World War. Anne Frank’s ... Read More »

January 30, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Banning literary sequels

By Alison Jones

Mediabistro’s Galley Cat brings attention to an ongoing legal battle over the intellectual property rights to Victor Hugo’s classic Les Misérables. Pierre Hugo, the author’s great-great-grandson, is fighting to remove two sequels written by Francois ... Read More »

January 30, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

R U reading this novel?

By Nathan Whitlock

The Globe and Mail ran a story this week on a new novel published in Finland that is entirely composed of cell phone text messages. The Last Messages tells the story of a fictitious executive ... Read More »

January 26, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Bad books for boys

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Guardian site, Tom Kelly looks at the resurgence of adventure yarns for boys, and he doesn't like what he sees. "It has the hazy glow of nostalgia for a simpler world," he says ... Read More »

January 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Family Literacy Day

By Alison Jones

This Saturday, Jan. 27 is Family Literacy Day, a national event created by ABC CANADA Literacy Foundation in 1999 to promote the importance of families reading together. According to the official website, the program celebrates ... Read More »

January 24, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

He's back: Stevenson returns to Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

Larry Stevenson is back in Toronto, and Globe and Mail business reporter Gordon Pitts has a Q&A with the Chapters founder. After losing Chapters to Indigo in a hostile takeover, Stevenson reportedly studied at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Supreme Court rules against Vancouver bookstore

By Nathan Whitlock

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government should not be required to provide advance funding to Vancouver’s Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium for its legal battle against Canada Customs, The ... Read More »

January 19, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

The end of ReganBooks

By Leigh Anne Williams

The big news south of the border is that with Judith Regan gone, HarperCollins is sweeping out the corners – cancelling that controversial Mickey Mantle bio, shutting down the L.A. ReganBooks office, and renaming the ... Read More »

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

The literary journal co-founder who came in from the cold

By Leigh Anne Williams

The New York Times reports on a new documentary about Harold L. Humes, a novelist who co-founded The Paris Review and who wrote two admired novels in the 1950s before he "succumbed to a mental ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian books communicate real good

By Alison Jones

In an entry on his Macleans blog from earlier this month, Brian Bethune laments the lapses of grammar in a number of recent Canadian books, using the multiple mistakes found in the Giller-nominated DeNiro’s Game ... Read More »

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

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