With the dust of the 10-day strike at the Toronto Public Library settling, two other public library systems face the possibility of job action. On Monday, public library workers in Regina voted 83 per cent ... Read More »
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(Photo: Cash Mob Windsor) Flash mob, meet the buy local movement. That's what happened at Juniper Used and Rare Books last Saturday, when more than 50 customers simultaneously descended on the Windsor, Ontario, bookshop. The ... Read More »
March 30, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling
It's like trying to cook when there are little children around. That's the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old system administrator in Atlanta, regarding the experience of reading a book on the Kindle Fire. ... Read More »
March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
Happy birthday Dr. Suess: The Lorax film promotion replaces Truffula trees with SUVs Slate introduces monthly review section, tripling its books coverage Nieman Journalism Lab puts the spotlight on the National Post's ebook program O'Reilly Media ... Read More »
March 2, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
UNESCO celebrates reading, writers, and illustrators with World Book Day Apple launches comics and graphic novel section in the iBookstore Acorn media to control Agatha Christie's literary estate The rise of little libraries, DIY reading ... Read More »
March 1, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries
Five years after finishing life at Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling is back with a new publisher and a book deal for her first adult novel. Little, Brown will publish the untitled novel in the U.S. and in ... Read More »
February 23, 2012 | Filed under: Authors
Penguin Group has announced it will no longer provide ebooks to OverDrive, effective immediately. With the termination of the relationship between the publisher and the U.S. digital content distributor, public libraries are effectively cut off ... Read More »
February 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology, Libraries
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the spring season's new books. MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY Revolutionary activity in the Middle East and North Africa has created an appetite for stories about life in these ... Read More »
Two of Toronto's longstanding independent bookstores will face major changes in 2012. This morning, Sue Houghting, owner of The Book Mark in the city's Kingsway neighbourhood, announced she will close shop after 46 years in ... Read More »
January 3, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling
The dissident writer and publisher Josef Skvorecky, author of 1984's Governor General's Literary Award“winning novel The Engineer of Human Souls, has died at the age of 87, according to media reports. Skvorecky came to Canada ... Read More »
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