A small but lively crowd gathered on Wednesday evening at Toronto's swank Drake Hotel for the 2007 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Author Gil Adamson eventually walked away with the $7,500 prize for her ... Read More »
Search Results by tag: Amazon
In addition to the numerous author readings, signings, and stacks of books for sale at yesterday's Word on the Street festival, which drew an estimated 200,000 people to Queen's Park in Toronto, there was a ... Read More »
September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Earlier this week, Google unveiled a new feature of its book search service that may have useful applications for the publishing industry. According to CNet News, the feature will allow online retailers to embed preview ... Read More »
September 24, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
For all you American political junkies out there: Amazon.com has used its book sales data to create a nifty election-year map of the U.S., where they show which states are buying more "red" books, and ... Read More »
September 17, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
New York magazine's feature by Boris Kachka about the current state of the book business lays things out like a fractured fairy tale, more Alice in Wonderland or Bluebeard than Cinderella, and rife with poisoned ... Read More »
September 16, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
A fight between two high-school cheerleaders has resulted in an American court ruling that print-on-demand services are not liable in defamation lawsuits. (Sounds like a plot twist on Gossip Girl...) The two cheerleaders, Ms. Calcagni ... Read More »
September 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
The Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam rails against the U.S. textbook industry, arguing that students who use illegal download sites like Textbook Torrents and thepiratebay.org are partly justified in doing so: As a writer, how ... Read More »
September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »
September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion
U.S. firm Perseus Books Group is offering small publishers a chance to access digital book technology with the launch of a new service. The New York Times reports: The new service, called Constellation, will allow ... Read More »
September 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Looks like Amazon isn't going to rest until it owns every book-related business on the planet. After acquiring Abebooks just a few weeks ago, the retail giant has now sucked up the social networking site ... Read More »
August 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Contact us via email
