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Sony Reader fails to wow them at WOTS

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

Too many prizes, book club picks, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Are there too many literary prizes? Richard Whitehead at the Times weighs the Booker against the rest. According to Indigo Books & Music, "Book Clubs are the New Dinner Party." Indigo has released a list ... Read More »

September 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Don’t steal this textbook “ download it

By Stuart Woods

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

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

By Stuart Woods

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

Has the Kindle reached the tipping point?

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Christian Science Monitor, the Kindle e-book reader may be more in demand than initially anticipated. An industry analyst at Citigroup doubled his forecast for 2008 sales of the paperback-sized device from 190,000 ... Read More »

August 13, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Lessons from Jeff Bezos

By Sara Forsyth

The McSweeney's blog recently posted a "short imagined monologue" from the mind of Jeff Bezos (as imagined by contributor Evan Johnston). We meet Bezos in the waiting room at his doctor's office, where he's waiting ... Read More »

August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: debating Amis, meeting Don McKellar, and bribing reluctant readers with beer

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Q&Q contributor Steven W. Beattie and author/bookseller Matt Sturrock have it out over Martin Amis's new book (That Shakespeherian Rag) Christopher Shulgan stalks Don McKellar (Shulgan) Kiwi men offered free beer to ... Read More »

August 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Potter for a quid

By Sara Forsyth

Today, Guardian blogger Nicholas Clee muses on the implications of selling the Harry Potter series at bargain basement prices. This is in light of British supermarket chain Asda's decision to sell Harry Potter and the ... Read More »

July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Shakespeare, Waugh, Sedaris, Seinfeld, Bush

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Stolen Shakespeare folio recovered in U.S. (Dallas Morning News) The battle over Brideshead Revisited (Times Online) David Sedaris in Ottawa (The Ottawa Citizen) Latest round in the Seinfeld cookbook fight (The New ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries

Bookmarks: McMurtry on book collecting; Rushdie on latest Booker win; “indecent sunbathing”