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Daily book biz round-up, April 1

No foolin' here, just the straight dope: Borders escapes death-watch via refinancing Shocker! Amazon goes to agency model with HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster Non-shocker! Wolf Hall among Walter Scott Prize nominees Marcel Theroux, Kim ... Read More »

April 1, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Joe Hill grabs life by the horns

By Laura Godfrey

On March 22, Joe Hill launched his new supernatural thriller Horns, while (naturally) wearing light-up devil horns at an event hosted by Toronto sci-fi bookstore BAKKA-Phoenix and the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation and ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Way to Display! Smile at Vancouver Kidsbooks

By Laura Godfrey

As part of Quillblog's ongoing commitment to filling our site with ephemera, sundries, and both flotsam and jetsam from around the book world, we have instituted a semi-regular feature entitled Way to Display!, in which ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 31

By Scott MacDonald

Your book news for the day: Kobo eReader pantsed in front of the entire class Margaret Atwood all a-Twitter in the NYRB Borders likely to survive, according to Business Week Talking to laid-off book biz ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Helen Dunmore wins £5,000 National Poetry Competition

By Laura Godfrey

Who says poetry doesn't pay? This year's winner of the U.K.'s National Poetry Competition has been announced, and the £5,000 prize goes to ¦ an Orange Prize“winning novelist and poet. Helen Dunmore, author of dozens ... Read More »

March 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Twilight Saga book gives another vamp her time to sparkle

By Laura Godfrey

It's no Midnight Sun “ Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga story written from Edward's perspective, which was leaked in 2008 “ but Meyer's publisher, Little, Brown for Young Readers, announced today that a new novella is ... Read More »

March 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up, March 30

By Scott MacDonald

More book news for you all: iBooks pricing model leaked Kobo to go to agency model Let the media slobbering begin: new Stephenie Meyer title announced BookCamp 2010 is open for registration French publisher Gallimard ... Read More »

March 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Pro-Israeli groups slam award-winning novel as being “vehemently anti-Israel”

By Steven W. Beattie

Four years after the Toronto District School Board limited access to Deborah Ellis's book Three Wishes, which was published by Groundwood Books and featured interviews with Israeli and Palestinian children about the ongoing conflict in ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Apple iBookstore’s prices shoot up … maybe

By Steven W. Beattie

Remember the AppAdvice post that Quillblog pointed to last week about the pricing of e-books from Apple's iBookstore? The one that had The New York Times' bestsellers priced at $9.99, which would be competitive with ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet Canada Tech Forum round-up: pirates, pricing, and social media

By Laura Godfrey

This year's BookNet Canada Technology Forum “ or gathering of beautiful nerds, as Soft Skull Press founder Richard Nash called it “ took place on March 25 at Toronto's MaRS Centre, and involved about 200 ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

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Daily book biz round-up, April 1

Event photos: Joe Hill grabs life by the horns

Way to Display! Smile at Vancouver Kidsbooks

Daily book biz round-up, March 31

Helen Dunmore wins £5,000 National Poetry Competition

New Twilight Saga book gives another vamp her time to sparkle

Daily book biz round-up, March 30

Pro-Israeli groups slam award-winning novel as being “vehemently anti-Israel”

Apple iBookstore’s prices shoot up … maybe

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