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This is just too easy

The New York Daily News reported yesterday on a smirk-inducing literary phenomenon: the celebrity novel. Starting as a discussion on Nicole Richie's thinly veiled roman à clef and gossip rag of a novel, The Truth ... Read More »

November 29, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The same old song in a different country

By Scott MacDonald

As reported in Sunday's Guardian, two of the U.K.'s largest bookselling chains, Waterstone's and Ottakar's, are set to merge, pending a potential challenge from the Office of Fair Trading and pleas from the local writing ... Read More »

November 29, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

10-year-old Conundrum at crossroads

By Scott MacDonald

Last week, Hal Niedzviecki wrote an article in The Globe and Mail commemorating the 10th anniversary of the small, Montreal-based publishing company Conundrum Press. Hitting some commercial success lately with books like Chandra Mayor's novel-in-vignettes ... Read More »

November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Globe launches weekday books column

By Scott MacDonald

Quelling at least some industry fears over the ever-diminishing number of Canadian media outlets devoted to books, The Globe and Mail launched its weekday book review column today. Entitled "Book a Day," the column kicked ... Read More »

November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Québécois booksellers go on strike

By Scott MacDonald

While Québécois bibliophiles in the tune of 120,000 converged on Montreal's Place Bonaventure last weekend for the city's 28th annual Salon du Livre, employees at nearly a dozen branches of Quebec's largest book chain set ... Read More »

November 22, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Reading in the native language

By Scott MacDonald

A story in The Guardian discusses both spoken and written language in India. Despite its approximately one billion people and nearly 800 spoken languages and dialects, India, like other former English colonies, is a linguistically ... Read More »

November 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Sweating to the oldies

By Scott MacDonald

A humorous Onion-style story on the International Herald Tribune's website asks an obvious question: how is it that, at 72, an age at which many writers have already slowed down, Pulitzer Prize-winner novelist Philip Roth ... Read More »

November 16, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Poetry makes a comeback

By Scott MacDonald

Some interesting news on the poetry-meets-technology front: Lorna MacLaren of the Scottish newspaper The Herald notes a potential increase in the popularity of poetry, especially that of the Romantics, amongst members of the iPod generation. ... Read More »

November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The ultimate product placement shot

By Scott MacDonald

A new kids' book to hit the shelves this holiday season marks a troubling trend in literary co-productions. Published by HarperCollins with what appears to be significant input from the fine folks at Saks Fifth ... Read More »

November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

NYT notices Neil Young Nation

By Leigh Anne Williams

The good news: Kevin Chong's memoir Neil Young Nation, one of Greystone/Douglas & McIntyre's big fall titles, snagged a plum spot in The New York Times Book Review on the weekend. The bad news: the ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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