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The Washington Post expands book coverage

Starting Jan. 23, The Washington Post is expanding its Sunday book coverage to include two new specialized reviews. The additional coverage is part of The Post's decision to split the Arts and Sunday Style sections, ... Read More »

January 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Toronto Star adopts New York Times books coverage

By Stuart Woods

This Sunday, the Toronto Star will begin carrying content from The New York Times' Sunday book review section. The section will be a 12-page tabloid that Star spokesperson Bob Hepburn describes as an "abridged version" ... Read More »

October 13, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Lose the big books

By Leigh Anne Williams

A U.S. litblog, Conversational Reading, checks in on everyone's favourite subject, the state of book reviewing. In this case, it's the big-book syndrome, in which a new title by a major author receives nearly identical ... Read More »

November 14, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

From blurbese to reviewerese and back again

By Leigh Anne Williams

The book world has a language all of its own, writes Tom Payne in this very amusing Telegraph piece about the words and phrases unique to that language. Payne even compiles a long list of ... Read More »

August 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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