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BookNet Canada Tech Forum round-up: pirates, pricing, and social media

This year's BookNet Canada Technology Forum “ or gathering of beautiful nerds, as Soft Skull Press founder Richard Nash called it “ took place on March 25 at Toronto's MaRS Centre, and involved about 200 ... Read More »

March 29, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins steps into the ring of the Amazon vs. Macmillan battle

By Laura Godfrey

While Amazon has yet to fully reinstate Macmillan titles on its website, another potential threat looms on the horizon for the online retailer. Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp. “ the huge media ... Read More »

February 3, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

New Yorker cans short fiction issue

By Steven W. Beattie

On December 4, Douglas Hunter published an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail suggesting that the annual CBC literary smackdown known as Canada Reads is biased against non-fiction: I think it's super that Canadian ... Read More »

December 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Opinion

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Reaction to Herta MÃ¼ller’s Nobel Prize win

By Stuart Woods

The Romanian-born German author Herta MÃ¼ller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. If you've never heard of her before, that's understandable: while she's widely read in Eastern Europe and is one of Germany's ... Read More »

October 8, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Who will win the Nobel?

By Nathan Whitlock

It's not quite the biggest reward that can be given to a writer (that would be inclusion in Oprah's Book Club, or maybe Richard and Judy's), but the Nobel Prize for Literature is nothing to ... Read More »

October 7, 2009 | Filed under: Authors, Awards

Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?

By Steven W. Beattie

A recent report from the Cleantech Group analyzed the environmental impact of traditional publishing as measured against e-book publishing, and declared the latter to be the clear winner on environmental grounds. Calling the publishing industry ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Publishers Weekly up for sale … again

By Suzanne Gardner

Publishers Weekly announced this morning that it's being put up for sale. Reed Business Information, which publishes over 400 trade publications including PW, Library Journal, and School Library Journal, intends to sell most of its ... Read More »

July 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news

Canadian government hosts online copyright forum

By Steven W. Beattie

With very little fanfare, and smack in the middle of the summer vacation season, the government of Canada has set up a website to solicit Canadians' opinions about "the important issue of copyright." Spearheaded by ... Read More »

July 22, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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

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