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Kobo celebrates e-book week with a round of financing

Kobo today announced it has closed a new round of financing. The amount of the Series C investment has not been disclosed, but in a statement, the Toronto-based e-publishing company says, Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »

March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: International Women’s Day

By Sue Carter

Susanne Antonetta discusses gender and the act of making non-fiction Lucy, post-Narnia: Where are the daring heroines of adult literature? Five romance novels for hard-headed women Do two new editions of Elizabeth Bishop's poems and ... Read More »

March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Stephen King takes on the Kennedy assassination

By Steven W. Beattie

For over 40 years, Stephen King has been chronicling America's fears and collective nightmares. In his new book, he is set to take on one of the most nightmarish incidents in 20th-century American history. According ... Read More »

March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Authors

Free books help spark sales

By Steven W. Beattie

This past Saturday saw the inaugural World Book Night in the U.K., an event that featured 20,000 readers each giving away 48 copies of their favourite book. In total, one million books by authors such ... Read More »

March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian cookbooks mix it up at the Gourmand Awards

By Sue Carter

From March 3-6, booksellers, publishers, chefs, and other foodie types descended on the City of Lights for the annual Paris Cookbook Fair, the largest event of its kind in the world. The culinary weekend kicked ... Read More »

March 7, 2011 | Filed under: Awards

Canadian literary event round-up, March 4-10

By Sue Carter

Here are just a few literary/book events happening around the country this week: Newfoundland's travelling poetry festival The March Hare comes to Toronto, March 4-5 (Fri. at 8 p.m., Sat. at 2 p.m., Brass Taps ... Read More »

March 4, 2011 | Filed under: Events

Kim Echlin wins Barnes & Noble Discover Award

By Natalie Samson

Toronto writer Kim Echlin took home the big prize yesterday at the Barnes & Noble 2010 Discover Awards. The U.S. chain named Echlin winner of the fiction category for her third novel, The Disappeared (first ... Read More »

March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: The revolution will be tweeted, and more

By Natalie Samson

New York-based OR Books will publish Tweets from Tahrir, a compilation of Twitter dispatches from Egypt's recent political revolution The nominees for Quebec's best French-language comics include Jeff Lemire's Essex County (trans. Sidonie Van den ... Read More »

March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Random House titles now available at U.S. iBookstore, not in Canada

By Sue Carter

At Wednesday's launch of the iPad 2 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs confirmed that 17,000 titles from Random House U.S. will now be available in Apple's iBookstore. Titles began appearing on the iBooks ... Read More »

March 3, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Vikings of the Ice nominated for Audie Award

By Sue Carter

Vikings of the Ice by George Allan England (Rattling Books) is the only a Canadian finalist for the 2011 Audie Awards, which honours the year's best audiobooks. Narrated by actor Frank Holden, the Newfoundland and ... Read More »

March 2, 2011 | Filed under: Awards, Book news

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Kobo celebrates e-book week with a round of financing

Book biz round-up: International Women’s Day

Stephen King takes on the Kennedy assassination

Free books help spark sales

Canadian cookbooks mix it up at the Gourmand Awards

Canadian literary event round-up, March 4-10

Kim Echlin wins Barnes & Noble Discover Award

Random House titles now available at U.S. iBookstore, not in Canada

Vikings of the Ice nominated for Audie Award

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