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London Book Fair post-mortem

As reported in OMNI on Tuesday, most of the Canadian agents attending this week's London Book Fair were anticipating lowered attendance. However, most were going and reported full schedules. It is hardly surprising, then, that ... Read More »

April 23, 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: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

By Stuart Woods

Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival of Literature in Dubai earlier this week over concerns of censorship, Margaret Atwood decides she'll ... Read More »

February 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Kindle 2 not coming to Canada

By Stuart Woods

This week, Amazon unveiled Kindle 2, but the thinner, sleeker e-reader is still not available in Canada. That means Canadians will have to wait to read Stephen King's lastest novella, which is a Kindle-only exclusive. ... Read More »

February 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

EU digital library off to a shaky start

By Stuart Woods

It was supposed to be a new library for a new millennium, but within 24 hours of the launch of Europeana, an EU initiative to store millions of documents in a searchable online repository, the ... Read More »

November 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

By Scott MacDonald

U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama is at the center of a burgeoning publishing world brouhaha, with Barnes & Noble on one side and Amazon.com on the other. According to the Associated Press: Chelsea Green Publishing, ... Read More »

August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

By Scott MacDonald

Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »

May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

HarperCollins U.S. to try new publishing model

By Scott MacDonald

In a move that should have people talking at the upcoming London Book Fair, HarperCollins U.S. has announced plans to launch a new-style publishing program. The man in charge is publishing veteran Robert S. Miller, ... Read More »

April 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: online shoppers prefer books, kids ought to read, sci-fi space gods are dumb, and other shockingly obvious book news

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Books are tops amongst the world's online shoppers (The Guardian) Apparently, reading is good for kids, so they should do it more (Toronto Star) The dumbest space gods in science fiction (io9) ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

The Internet, and other modern horrors

By Stuart Woods

Perhaps in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of blogging, Guy Gavriel Kay has a piece in this past weekend's Globe and Mail Books section about the perils facing authors in the digital age. Gavriel Kay ... Read More »

December 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

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Search Results by tag: digital publishing

London Book Fair post-mortem

Notes from BNC’s tech forum

Bookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more

Kindle 2 not coming to Canada

EU digital library off to a shaky start

Obama becomes publishing world “divider”

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

HarperCollins U.S. to try new publishing model

Bookmarks: online shoppers prefer books, kids ought to read, sci-fi space gods are dumb, and other shockingly obvious book news

The Internet, and other modern horrors

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