Slate has a regular slideshow column, and it's always interesting. This week it tackles the architecture of libraries, and how library design has had to change since computers defeated books by a score of 6 ... Read More »
The 2006 Survey of Household Spending in Canada says that, despite an overall increase in consumption, "spending on reading materials decreased 5% to $260 per household." It seems that no one can stop the grim ... Read More »
February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
Eye Weekly has a brief history of the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto. Apparently, it used to be a bowling alley. (Bring your own tenpins and a bowling ball and it still could be.) ... Read More »
February 27, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling
This year's edition of Canada Reads kicks off today with new host Jian Ghomeshi. By the end of the day, one of the five books in contention will be voted off the list “ will ... Read More »
February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Over at UFO Digest, a site dedicated to the paranormal, extraterrestrial, and the hypermundane (oh wait “ that last one's our beat), there is a first-person account of a woman and her mother being helped ... Read More »
February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling
Some book-related links: George Steiner says narrative fiction's days are numbered (The Guardian) Parisian booksellers leave city for picturesque town “ there's a charming and quirky romantic comedy just waiting to be written here (Deutsche ... Read More »
February 25, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
A British architecture firm, Levitate Architects, has come up with a novel way for apartment-dwellers to accommodate their too-large book collections. In a genius stroke, they have created a combo bookshelf/staircase, which you can see ... Read More »
February 22, 2008 | Filed under: Events
The British publishing industry mag The Bookseller has been running its Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year competition for 31 years now, and the 2008 shortlist has just been announced. The nominees ... Read More »
February 22, 2008 | Filed under: Awards
Mark one small victory for supporters of Creative Commons, the alternative licensing protocol that gives authors more freedom to dictate restrictions on their work. As reported on the Nebraska Library Commission blog, several CC titles ... Read More »
February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
New books are not particularly fragile. Everyone knows that. In fact, that's one of the big reasons why paper-and-ink texts are still preferred by such a wide margin over breakable, expensive-to-replace e-books and e-readers. So ... Read More »
February 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Contact us via email
