Search Results by tag: cover design

September Q&Q: Dany LaferriÃ¨re and more in the spotlight on Quebec publishing

The cover star of the September issue of Q&Q is the Haitian-born, Montreal-based author Dany LaferriÃ¨re, who came to national attention in the 1980s with his first novel, How to Make Love to a Negro ... Read More »

September 4, 2009 | Filed under: Opinion

When covers look alike

By Stuart Woods

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and in the world of book-cover design “ where both budgets and the number of stock images are limited “ a little bit of repetition is inevitable. For ... Read More »

September 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Sorry, who wrote this book again?: Dan Brown headlines on someone else’s book

By Suzanne Gardner

While it may be standard practice to see book covers with blurbs that read "In the tradition of [insert best-selling author's name here]," the Internet is abuzz today about one of the most blatant abuses ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Indigo deals with the digital revolution

By Steven W. Beattie

Information wants to be free, or so the popular bromide has it. Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books & Music, has another formula: "All content wants to be digital." According to an ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Indigo to launch its own e-reader?

By Scott MacDonald

Canada AM tech reporter Kris Abel was casually chatting with Indigo CEO Heather Reisman this morning “ she had just got through doing an interview about her annual "summer reads" selections “ when she revealed ... Read More »

June 3, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Kundera, de Botton, Ginsberg, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: "French" author Milan Kundera skips Czech conference on his work. Alain de Botton calls for a new literature of the workplace. Jonathan Goldstein discovers the lonely, Twilight Zone-esque hell of the signing ... Read More »

June 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book links, Book news

Richard Poplak and more in the May Q&Q

By Stuart Woods

Jet-setting author Richard Poplak travelled to 17 different countries to research his latest book, which looks at the influence of American pop culture in the Muslim world, and he's Q&Q's cover subject in the May ... Read More »

May 1, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: It looks like Shortcovers, Indigo's downloadable e-book application for mobile devices, has some new competition: Lexycycle, the start-up behind the popular iPhone e-book reader Stanza, has been acquired by ... Read More »

April 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

By Stuart Woods

About 225 industry people crowded into a Toronto conference room on Thursday for BookNet Canada's annual technology forum. The theme of this year's conference was evolution or revolution, though most of the speakers seemed to ... Read More »

March 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: BookNet Canada's Michael Tamblyn offers a fairly enthusiastic review of Indigo's new e-books for iPhones app Shortcovers. Harper U.S. acquires Kerouac's unpublished first novel, about a man at sea. ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: cover design

September Q&Q: Dany LaferriÃ¨re and more in the spotlight on Quebec publishing

When covers look alike

Sorry, who wrote this book again?: Dan Brown headlines on someone else’s book

Indigo deals with the digital revolution

Indigo to launch its own e-reader?

Bookmarks: Kundera, de Botton, Ginsberg, and more

Richard Poplak and more in the May Q&Q

Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

Bookmarks: reviews of Shortcovers, Mailer’s reviewers, and a new book for uppity editors

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