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Why ebooks in Quebec are a taxing issue

While NPR urges the world to stop the ebook versus print debate, in Quebec, the debate has shifted to how digital titles are taxed, and what constitutes a "real book." According to Montreal's The Gazette, ... Read More »

February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

James Ivory, Russell Banks among guest speakers for TIFF’s Books on Film series

By Sue Carter

James Ivory will discuss his adaptation of E.M. Forster's Howard's End on June 18. When the Toronto International Film Festival and Random House of Canada host a book club, the guest speakers are bound to ... Read More »

February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Book links roundup: Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years, the greatest books of all time, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years of book and music blogging at Brooklyn's Word Bookstore The Atlantic lists greatest books of all time as voted by 125 famous authors J.D. Salinger's Franny, Graham Greene's Maurice Bendrix, and ... Read More »

February 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Wislawa Szymborska dead at 88

By Steven W. Beattie

Poland's Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the "Mozart of poetry," died in her hometown of Krakow on Wednesday. From the Washington Post: She has been called both deeply political and playful, ... Read More »

February 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book links roundup: Natalie Portman takes on Judith Krantz, beautiful bookstores, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Natalie Portman is behind a new TV miniseries based on Judith Krantz's steamy novel Scruples Take a peek at 20 of the most beautiful bookstores in the world The New York Times reports Barnes and Noble won't ... Read More »

February 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

Book events slideshow: Canada Reads, Ottawa’s first all-women’s poetry slam championship, and more

By Sue Carter

Every Tuesday Quillblog rounds up photos of book-related events across Canada. If you would like your event photos to be ... Read More »

January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Events

Guy Delisle wins gold at French comic book awards

By Natalie Samson

Guy Delisle's latest graphic novel, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, has been named best comic book of the year at the 39th AngoulÃªme International Comics Festival. The Quebec-born artist was presented with the Fauve ... Read More »

January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

Book links roundup: talking to fake Cormac McCarthy, lessons from a bookstore owner, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

The Atlantic interviews the novelist behind the fake Cormac McCarthy Twitter account Salon's 25 lessons from opening a bookstore The Book Fridge launches Newfoundland Reads University of King's College in Halifax wants feedback on proposed ... Read More »

January 31, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Esi Edugyan's Scotiabank Giller Prize“winning novel, Half-Blood Blues, remains on top of this week's Canadian fiction bestsellers' list. For the two weeks ending Jan. 22: 1. Half-Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan (Thomas Allen Publishers, $24.95 pa, 9780887627415) 2. ... Read More »

January 30, 2012 | Filed under: Bestsellers

Book links roundup: Franzen hates ebooks, erotica sales get a helping hand, and more

By Sue Carter

Jonathan Franzen hates ebooks, despite selling 350,000 digital copies of Freedom Canadian erotica fans come out of the closet thanks to e-readers ... Read More »

January 30, 2012 | Filed under: Book news

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Why ebooks in Quebec are a taxing issue

James Ivory, Russell Banks among guest speakers for TIFF’s Books on Film series

Book links roundup: Largehearted Boy celebrates 10 years, the greatest books of all time, and more

Wislawa Szymborska dead at 88

Book links roundup: Natalie Portman takes on Judith Krantz, beautiful bookstores, and more

Book events slideshow: Canada Reads, Ottawa’s first all-women’s poetry slam championship, and more

Guy Delisle wins gold at French comic book awards

Book links roundup: talking to fake Cormac McCarthy, lessons from a bookstore owner, and more

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

Book links roundup: Franzen hates ebooks, erotica sales get a helping hand, and more

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