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Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

Margaret Atwood talks to Salon about her well-timed meditation on debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Are Canadian authors' festivals the greatest? More gripes about those nasty chain bookstores Reed Elsevier beginning ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Gloomy times for the U.S. book trade

By Stuart Woods

News broke yesterday that Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House U.S., is laying off 16 employees “ a 10% cut in staff. While David Drake, a Doubleday spokesperson, denies that the cuts have ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Battle of the bloggers, IFOA edition

By Stuart Woods

Toronto author Andrew Westoll has been doing a fine job as the official blogger for this year's International Festival of Authors. In fact, it seems he's been doing such a good job that National Post ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Google, publishers settle book-scanning suit

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Google will pay $125-million to settle a class-action lawsuit with The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers over its book-scanning project. As part of the agreement, Google will expand its Book Search program ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Bookmarks: Adiga’s agent, Small Beer for Obama, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Booker winner Aravind Adiga clarifies when and why he dumped his agent, and it wasn't about money. Phew! Small Beer Press, a small press in North Carolina Massachusetts, is donating 20% of this month's sales ... Read More »

October 28, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Book links

Oprah’s love affair with the Amazon Kindle

By Steven W. Beattie

The de facto Queen of All Media has gone digital. Last week, Amazon's Kindle e-reader got a powerful celebrity endorsement from Oprah Winfrey, who declared that the gadget is "absolutely [her] new favorite thing in ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Tony Hillerman dead at 83

By Steven W. Beattie

In what is becoming a sad Monday ritual, news has broken about the death of a major literary figure over the weekend. Mystery writer Tony Hillerman, whose Navajo Tribal Police novels were perennial bestsellers, died ... Read More »

October 27, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

The scents of CanLit

By Nathan Whitlock

Following up on our earlier post about the new Danielle Steel perfume, we thought we'd offer some fragrance suggestions for our own literary stars: Wayne Johnston's Terre Neuve “ Cod oil, salt water, and seal ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Authors

Bookmarks: DFW, BHL, and a librarian in NYC

By Stuart Woods

Was David Foster Wallace the greatest writer of his generation? David Lipsky makes the case in his Rolling Stone profile, excerpted here An appreciation of legendary U.K. agent Pat Kavanagh, also recently deceased French provocateur ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Danielle Steel and the stink of success

By Stuart Woods

What does a bestseller smell like? The creative team at Elizabeth Arden is wagering that people will be curious to find out with its latest celebrity fragrance, Danielle by Danielle Steel. But according to T ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

Gloomy times for the U.S. book trade

Battle of the bloggers, IFOA edition

Google, publishers settle book-scanning suit

Bookmarks: Adiga’s agent, Small Beer for Obama, and more

Oprah’s love affair with the Amazon Kindle

Tony Hillerman dead at 83

The scents of CanLit

Bookmarks: DFW, BHL, and a librarian in NYC

Danielle Steel and the stink of success

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