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In honour of St. Patrick’s Day…

The author as drunken lout is hardly groundbreaking, but it's rare to unearth the sort of apology Edgar Allen Poe offered his publishers J. and H.G. Langley for his mint julep-fuelled behaviour in 1842: Will you be so ... Read More »

March 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Tweet your way to literary stardom

By Steven W. Beattie

In the latest race-to-the-bottom trend of cultural idiocy, books composed of Tweets by users of the popular website Twitter seem to be catching on. HarperCollins' new imprint, IT Books, is publishing one, called Twitter Wit, ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

2009 Scotiabank Giller jury announced

By Steven W. Beattie

In what is always an early harbinger of how Canada's richest literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, will eventually shake out, the three-person jury for the 2009 edition has been named. This year's jury is ... Read More »

March 16, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: NBCC and James Wood on the best books

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Star literary agent Eric Simonoff, the man who landed Andrew Davidson $1.25-million for The Gargoyle, has jumped ship to a new agency, joining global talent agency William Morris. Back ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Robert J. Sawyer in L.A.

By Scott MacDonald

Sci-fi author Robert J. Sawyer recently visited the Los Angeles set of Flash Forward, a new ABC series based on his novel ... Read More »

March 11, 2009 | Filed under: Events

Amazon: stingy greedheads?

By Scott MacDonald

Slate has done a little investigation into the philanthropic efforts of Amazon, and discovered, basically, that the retail giant doesn't really do philanthropy. Recent Amazon.com SEC filings and annual reports make no mention of grants, ... Read More »

March 11, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

The Big Read

By Eric Emin Wood

Three years after its launch, New York City's the Big Read (itself a spawn of "What If All of Seattle Read the Same Book," launched 10 years ago) has spawned smaller, community-based undertakings, with thousands ... Read More »

March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Good news from HarperCollins?

By Eric Emin Wood

While many American houses are shuttering their specialty divisions and laying off employees, HarperCollins is bucking its own trend by creating a new division. It Books will focus on "pop culture, sports, style and content derived ... Read More »

March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Event photos: Stripmalling, Old City Hall, and Bradley McGogg

By Nathan Whitlock

Some recent book-world doings, captured photographically: Jon Paul Fiorentino (above, signing book in natty black hat) launched his illustrated novel Stripmalling (ECW Press) at a This is Not a Reading Series event at Toronto's Gladstone ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Events

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