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Movies made from books suck: Salman Rushdie

"Adaptation, the process by which one thing develops into another thing, by which one shape or form changes into a different form, is a commonplace artistic activity." That helpful declarative statement opens Salman Rushdie's recent ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

The unfinished life of David Foster Wallace

By Steven W. Beattie

"I want to author things that both restructure worlds and make living people feel stuff." So wrote the late David Foster Wallace to his editor during the composition of the mammoth novel Infinite Jest. Part ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Authors

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

By Steven W. Beattie

CBC Radio's annual battle of the books, Canada Reads, kicks off today with five celebrity panelists each defending one Canadian novel they think that Canada should read. Each day this week, one novel gets knocked ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

By Stuart Woods

Last week, Q&Q reported on new federal funding guidelines that could imperil Canada's small literary and arts magazines, by limiting Canadian Heritage money to publications with annual paid circulations of at least 5,000. Now, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Amazon’s rising monopoly

By Stuart Woods

Over at Slate, technology columnist Farhad Manjoo offers an analysis of how the Kindle 2 skews the emerging market for e-books in Amazon's favour, to the detriment of authors, publishers, libraries, chain bookstores, indie bookstores, ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harlequin rakes in cash for ailing Torstar

By Scott MacDonald

Harlequin parent company Torstar has just released its fourth-quarter results for 2008, and things look pretty bad: the company lost $211.2-million during the period, mostly via its stake in CTV/Globemedia. The one bright spot for ... Read More »

February 26, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Shortcovers set to launch tonight

By Scott MacDonald

While nerdy Americans await delivery of their Kindle 2s, nerdy Canadians can console themselves by trying Indigo's new Shortcovers service. The ambitious e-book service “ which allows users to download titles to their cellphones or ... Read More »

February 25, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Waiting for the Kindle 2

By Scott MacDonald

Amazon's Kindle 2 began shipping to eager U.S. technophiles earlier this week, and while few consumers have actually received the device as of yet, the anticipation is reaching ridiculous levels. According to an article on ... Read More »

February 25, 2009 | Filed under: Bookselling

Lime Green Secret launch photos

By Steven W. Beattie

Children's author Georgia Graham celebrated the launch of her new picture book, The Lime Green Secret (Tundra Books), on Feb. 14. Despite the day's rep for shades of red, it was all green all the ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Events

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Movies made from books suck: Salman Rushdie

The unfinished life of David Foster Wallace

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

Amazon’s rising monopoly

Harlequin rakes in cash for ailing Torstar

Shortcovers set to launch tonight

Waiting for the Kindle 2

Lime Green Secret launch photos

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