A few bookish links from across the Web: Book-loving travellers, breathe a sigh of relief: Transport Canada explains that the whole airplane book ban was just a misunderstanding Hundreds of readers offer words of support ... Read More »
With the announcement of the American Library Association's 2010 Youth Media Awards coming up on Jan. 18, conservative media website Newsbusters fears that the list will promote morally unsuitable books. The website, which calls itself ... Read More »
January 7, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
With the Jan. 28 opt-out deadline fast approaching, three major U.S. writers' groups “ The National Writers Union, The American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Science Fiction Writers of America “ have sent ... Read More »
January 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Plenty of young women who grew up in the 1980s and '90s still fondly remember The Baby-Sitters Club, the book series that motivated many childhood trips to the library. Ten years after the series ceased ... Read More »
January 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Over at Salon, Thomas Rogers looks at how the looming Apple Tablet might affect the world of publishing. It's a good read, but Rogers seems a bit out-to-lunch when he suggests that publishers and booksellers ... Read More »
January 6, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
A few bookish links from across the Web: The rumoured Apple Tablet comes closer to reality: the new product, potentially called iSlate, is expected to be unveiled on Jan. 26 in San Francisco Danger! Apparently, ... Read More »
January 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
In order to protect the public's delicate sensibilities, conservative Netherlands-based Christian publisher WordBridge Publishing has reprinted Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the Narcissus as The N-word of the Narcissus. According to the publisher's website, the ... Read More »
January 5, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
When Oprah announced last November that she is calling it quits in 2011, publishers blessed by the mojo of the daytime television doyenne's eponymous book club started biting their collective nails, wondering where they would ... Read More »
January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
2009 may be remembered in book circles as the year the e-book finally came of age. On Dec. 26, Amazon issued a press release with the headline, "On Christmas Day, for the First Time Ever, ... Read More »
January 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Literary salons, those 18th-century gatherings of writers who came together to engage in intellectual badinage, have been reborn in the 21st century, according to an article in the Guardian. One such salon, held monthly at ... Read More »
December 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
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