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Daily book biz round-up: Wylie defeated; Mockingjay debuts; and more

Today's book news: Andrew Wylie loses e-book battle with Random House, goes home and beats up pillow Once again, Amazon crows about "record" Kindle sales (without providing numbers to back it up) Facebook tries to ... Read More »

August 25, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Daily book biz round-up: one million iPads sold; Amazon Associates payola; and more

By Scott MacDonald

A quiet day in the land of book news: Amazon starts paying referral commissions on Kindle book sales One million iPads sold, says Apple Is Amazon's "most-highlighted" tracking creepy and wrong? Comix artist Peter Kuper ... Read More »

May 4, 2010 | Filed under: Book links

Bookmarks: Going Rogue mistakes, aliens and werewolves, Xbox Bibles, and more

By Alison Potstra

A few bookish links from around the Web: Sarah Palin's much-anticipated memoir hits shelves today. Palin tells Oprah in an unused clip from yesterday's interview that "logistically speaking, practically speaking, it wasn't a real difficult ... Read More »

November 17, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

BookCampers head to Vancouver

By Stuart Woods

After the success of BookCamp Toronto “ the daylong book-themed "unconference" that took place in Toronto last month “ the concept is being exported to Vancouver, where a group of BookCamp TO alumni and other ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Amazon: more than just a bookstore

By Stuart Woods

Time magazine book critic and tech columnist Lev Grossman follows up his report earlier this year about the future of literature with a new article, written with reporter Andrea Sachs, examining the impact Amazon is ... Read More »

June 12, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Deals

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

By Stuart Woods

Last week, Q&Q reported on new federal funding guidelines that could imperil Canada's small literary and arts magazines, by limiting Canadian Heritage money to publications with annual paid circulations of at least 5,000. Now, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2009 | 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

Todd Babiak vs. toddbabiak.com

By Stuart Woods

In a sardonic post announcing his reluctant embrace of the blogosphere, Edmonton author Todd Babiak (The Book of Stanley, The Garneau Block) expresses his instinctive distaste for self-serving author blogs: I used to make fun ... Read More »

November 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Show fever becomes Web fever

By Leigh Anne Williams

As BookExpo America kicks off in New York City, the L.A. Times has a brief writeup on the U.S.'s annual convention and trade show. And it seems that publishers are going in with Web 2.0 ... Read More »

May 31, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: Facebook

Daily book biz round-up: Wylie defeated; Mockingjay debuts; and more

Daily book biz round-up: one million iPads sold; Amazon Associates payola; and more

Bookmarks: Going Rogue mistakes, aliens and werewolves, Xbox Bibles, and more

BookCampers head to Vancouver

Coalition fights new litmag funding restrictions

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

Todd Babiak vs. toddbabiak.com

Show fever becomes Web fever

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