Diesel ebooks releases mobile bookstore Researcher suggests rating system for YA books Bloomsbury looks to academic growth Susan Sontag and the question ... Read More »
May 22, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Genevieve Graham book reading and signing for Sound of the Heart at the Spring Garden Road Public Library, Halifax (May 18, 12 p.m., free) CRFC Radio's Finding a Voice featuring readings from Mansfield Press spring ... Read More »
May 18, 2012 | Filed under: Events
New Brunswick novelist Riel Nason, whose The Town That Drowned won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, was one of nine East Coast authors to take home prizes at the Atlantic Book Awards ... Read More »
May 18, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Amazon launches self-publishing platform, CreateSpace, in Europe Marion Boyars to return to frontlist publishing Literary community remembers children's author Jean Craighead George Hailey Leithauser wins Emily Dickinson First Book Award DC Comics to release new ... Read More »
May 18, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
J.H. Gordon Books owner Julie Gordon celebrated the grand opening of her used bookstore in downtown Hamilton last week. Quillblog asked the library assistant-turned-bookseller about opening a bookstore in uncertain economic times and why she ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
A trio of Island women were celebrated at the PEI Book Awards on Wednesday night in Charlottetown. PEI Minister of Tourism and Culture Robert Henderson oversaw the presentation of the awards in the categories of ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Now that he's back in Canada after serving a 42-month prison sentence in Florida, Conrad Black has vowed to keep a low profile. But in comments made earlier this week to The Globe and Mail, ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Awards
Approximately 8,000 kids, authors, and volunteers attended this year's Festival of Trees, which took place May 15“16 at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre. During the two-day festival, the wee folk attended readings, workshops, and book signings, and ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Events
Rakuten, the Tokyo-based parent company of ebook vendor Kobo, is leading an investment round in the image-based social media website Pinterest, a move that could allow Kobo to expand its array of applications geared to ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
Calvin Trillin and Charles Foran on satire and Mordecai Richler EU pushes open access with research grants Kobo to sell Harry Potter ebooks Study shows Amazon user reviews as reliable as media experts U.K. publisher ... Read More »
May 17, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
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