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In Other Media gets emotional about climate change

Still riding high on a stellar talk delivered last night in Toronto by David Suzuki in which he both predicted imminent environmental collapse unless people change their ways right now and condemned the mainstream media's ... Read More »

February 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

HarperCollins offers online book

By Scott MacDonald

Yesterday, The New York Times's Edward Wyatt reported on HarperCollins's first foray into the world of digital publishing. Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own, by Yale professor and ... Read More »

February 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The hell with seasonal books

By Scott MacDonald

So far as Valentine's Day is concerned, there are two kinds of people: those who revel in prepackaged tokens of love and those for whom such tokens elicit the response of retching. Regardless of what ... Read More »

February 8, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Oda named Minister of Heritage

By Scott MacDonald

Yesterday, the new government was sworn in and Prime Minister Harper's cabinet was announced. Among those named were ex-Liberal cabinet member David Emerson as Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and ... Read More »

February 7, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Betty Friedan, pioneer of second-wave feminism, dies at 85

By Scott MacDonald

Betty Friedan, pioneer of second-wave feminism and author of The Feminine Mystique, died on Saturday, her 85th birthday. Published in 1963, The Feminine Mystique, one of several books authored by Friedan, exposed a common but ... Read More »

February 7, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

A book is a live thing like your dog, says bookseller

By Scott MacDonald

An article posted on the Toronto Star website today profiles the Dog Lovers Bookshop, an online bookseller carrying new and used books on all subjects canine. Formerly a bricks-and-mortar store, the business is co-owned by ... Read More »

February 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Author condemns ALA

By Scott MacDonald

In the latest issue of the Villager, a publication serving lower Manhattan, writer and broadcaster Andrei Codrescu rebukes the American Library Association over their failure to condemn or otherwise intervene in the arresting of Cuban ... Read More »

February 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

The Tournament of Books, round 2

By Leigh Anne Williams

For the second year in a row, the U.S. website The Morning News is hosting a "Tournament of Books," in which a group of litbloggers and other critics will whittle a list of 16 prominent ... Read More »

February 2, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On the rise of the misery memoir

By Scott MacDonald

In an essay recently posted on The Observer's website, Tim Adams explores the role of misery in British pop culture, writing of immensely popular "true-life" tabloid-style magazines that are filled with brief, fluffily written, and ... Read More »

February 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

On racializing the sci-fi genre

By Scott MacDonald

On the sci-fi website Infinite Matrix, Pam Noles discusses the lack of ethnic minority representation in speculative fiction. The essay/memoir starts in the basement of Noles's childhood home, where she watched, ignorant of racial issues, ... Read More »

February 1, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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