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BookNet bestsellers: non-fiction

From cookbooks to finance to travel, there's something for everyone on this week's bestsellers list. For the two weeks ending April 29, 2012: 1. The Looneyspoons Collection, Janet and Greta Podleski (Granet Publishing, $34.95 pa, ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Fifty Shades of Grey parody gets publisher

By Steven W. Beattie

How does E.L. James know she's really arrived? Not because her Twilight-inspired work of fan fiction was transmogrified into a bona fide mainstream phenomenon. Not because she scored a lucrative deal with a major publishing ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Creemore’s Curiosity House Bookstore & Gallery to close

By Natalie Samson

Curiosity House Bookshop & Gallery in Creemore, Ontario Another indie bookseller in Ontario is set to close. Last week, the owners of Curiosity House Bookstore & Gallery announced they will shutter the shop in Creemore, ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling

Controversy surrounds U.K. publication of Taliban poetry

By Steven W. Beattie

When a nation is at war, where does it draw the line between artistic freedom and propaganda? That is the question swirling around a volume of Taliban poetry set to publish later this month in ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: Theo Fleury memoir adapted for stage, library sued over e-reader lending, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Theo Fleury's Playing with Fire now a one-man play Free Library of Philadelphia in lawsuit over e-reader lending program U.K. ... Read More »

May 7, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

IBBY launches new fund for children’s literacy in UAE

By Natalie Samson

The International Board on Book for Young People Foundation and the United Arab Emirates Board on Books for Young People have launched a fund that will see 1 million Swiss Francs earmarked for children's literacy ... Read More »

May 4, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

LeftWords Festival to relaunch this weekend

By Natalie Samson

A number of independent publishers have paired up with the Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts to relaunch LeftWords Festival of Books and Ideas, a celebration of progressive, critical writing and publishing. The ... Read More »

May 4, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Canadian literary event roundup: May 4-10

By Katie Gowrie

Lecture and discussion with Gail Bowen, University of Regina (May 4, 3:30 p.m., free) Scott Fotheringham launches his novel The Rest is Silence at Box of Delights, Wolfville, N.S. (May 4, 7 p.m., free) Word ... Read More »

May 4, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: New printing technology challenges Gutenburg, Hunger Games sequel finds director, and more

By Katie Gowrie

New printing technology could be as important as Gutenberg Francis Lawrence to direct The Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire Which ebook store sold £3m in its first month? Palestinian Festival of Literature perseveres, despite challenges ... Read More »

May 4, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Killer comics, part two: Editions Tchai, Top Shelf, and Jeff Lemire

By Natalie Samson

In less than a decade, the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (May 5“6) has grown from a niche event into an annual gathering that attracts upward of 15,000 attendees. In the May 2012 issue, Q&Q takes ... Read More »

May 4, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

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BookNet bestsellers: non-fiction

Fifty Shades of Grey parody gets publisher

Creemore’s Curiosity House Bookstore & Gallery to close

Controversy surrounds U.K. publication of Taliban poetry

Book links roundup: Theo Fleury memoir adapted for stage, library sued over e-reader lending, and more

IBBY launches new fund for children’s literacy in UAE

LeftWords Festival to relaunch this weekend

Canadian literary event roundup: May 4-10

Book links roundup: New printing technology challenges Gutenburg, Hunger Games sequel finds director, and more

Killer comics, part two: Editions Tchai, Top Shelf, and Jeff Lemire

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