Search Results by tag: bookselling

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

Some book-related links: Did a Slate critic help save Nabokov's last novel from the flames? (Slate) Ontario senator helps save Joy Kogawa's childhood home (CBC.ca) Duddy Kravitz: The Musical was doomed from the start “ ... Read More »

April 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks (negation editon): the book collector who couldn’t read, the bestselling author who doesn’t exist, and the book prize judge who quit

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: 79-year-old book collector finally learns to read (Houston Chronicle) A bestselling novel by a soap opera character (The New York Times) Lily Allen drops out of Orange Prize jury (BBC) The (Stephen) ... Read More »

April 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Borders troubles

By Nathan Whitlock

Borders, the second-largest bookselling chain in the U.S., may be forced to sell itself off after hitting a financial crunch. Here are some takes on the chain's troubles: Borders bookstore may be up for sale ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

By Nathan Whitlock

We keep meaning to make these cheerier, but they always come out grim.... Some book-related links: J.K. Rowling contemplated suicide after divorce (BBC) Minute of silence in Sri Lanka as Arthur C. Clarke laid to ... Read More »

March 24, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Drawn & Quarterly store gets visited by language cops

By Nathan Whitlock

From Montreal's The Gazette: There are few commercial signs or posters in a recently opened Mile End bookstore, but one in particular appears to have upset a local resident. That person formally complained to the ... Read More »

March 20, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

By Jacob Sheen

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

The tale of the ghostly bookseller

By Nathan Whitlock

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

Canadian Heritage’s state of the (bookselling) nation

By Nathan Whitlock

Last year, the Department of Canadian Heritage commisioned a report entitled The Book Retail Sector in Canada, which was releases late last month. (You can read the whole report here.) Its key findings probably won't ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: "Free Radicals," a new short story by Alice Munro (The New Yorker) Robert Fisk's bio of Saddam Hussein is selling well “ except he didn't write it (The Independent) Why does it ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

The shape of indie bookstores to come

By Stuart Woods

A Brooklyn woman has won $15,000 in start-up cash from the Brooklyn Public Library for her design of an independent neighbourhood bookstore. Her plan is so crazy it just might work: "a small bookstore with ... Read More »

January 29, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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Search Results by tag: bookselling

Bookmarks: critic saves Nabokov novel, senator saves writer’s home, but nothing could save Duddy Kravitz musical

Bookmarks (negation editon): the book collector who couldn’t read, the bestselling author who doesn’t exist, and the book prize judge who quit

Borders troubles

Bookmarks: Rowling’s suicidal thoughts, Clarke’s funeral, and the most annoying people in bookstores

Drawn & Quarterly store gets visited by language cops

Memories of World’s Biggest Bookstore

The tale of the ghostly bookseller

Canadian Heritage’s state of the (bookselling) nation

Bookmarks: a new Alice Munro story, a fake Robert Fisk biography of Saddam Hussein, and a complaint about pokey publishing

The shape of indie bookstores to come

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