Wattpad pulls in $3.5 million in new investment
Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a… Read More »
View ArticleWhere to watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala
Tomorrow night’s Scotiabank Giller Prize awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBC’s new cable channel Bold at 9 p.m.… Read More »
View ArticleMargaret Atwood illustrates In Other Worlds e-book
Nan A. Talese, an imprint of Doubleday U.S., is previewing illustrations from the e-book version of Margaret Atwood’s essay collection… Read More »
View ArticleWislawa Szymborska dead at 88
Poland’s Wislawa Szymborska, the woman the Nobel Prize committee called the “Mozart of poetry,” died in her hometown of Krakow… Read More »
View ArticleJ.K. Rowling signs deal for an adult novel; Twitter goes hog wild
Five years after finishing life at Hogwarts, J.K. Rowling is back with a new publisher and a book deal for… Read More »
View ArticleAmazon, the iPad, and the culture of reading in an age of distraction
It’s like trying to cook when there are little children around. That’s the assessment of one David Myers, a 53-year-old… Read More »
View ArticleTwitter fuels rumours of American Psycho sequel
It appears that anything Bret Easton Ellis does is bound to provoke fascination and chatter. That includes posting to his… Read More »
View ArticleBook links roundup: Rushdie accuses U.S. government of wanting to destroy...
Salman Rushdie accuses U.S. Department of Justice of “wanting to destroy the world of books” Amazon reports more than two… Read More »
View ArticleShit Girls Say scores book deal with Harlequin
Following in the footsteps of Justin Halpern’s Shit My Dad Says, the popular Twitter feed and YouTube series Shit Girls… Read More »
View ArticleJennifer Egan short story to be serialized on Twitter
Starting tonight, Jennifer Egan’s latest short story, “Black Box,” will be tweeted by The New Yorker‘s fiction department (@NYerFiction) over… Read More »
View ArticleFall preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction, part II
The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there’s no shortage of new releases… Read More »
View ArticleHathiTrust ruling bodes well for Google Books, the beef against women...
Does the HathiTrust fair-use ruling suggest victory for Google Books Library Project? Slate tracks the “historical beef against women readers… Read More »
View ArticleWerner Herzog to adapt Vernon God Little, Twitter to host fiction festival,...
Film director Werner Herzog to adapt DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little Twitter to host its first fiction festival in November… Read More »
View ArticlePoll: what’s your favourite Penguin-Random House merger name?
As soon as news broke that Penguin and Random House may merge into a mega-publishing house, social media began musing… Read More »
View ArticleAndrew Pyper story featured in the inaugural Twitter Fiction Festival
Proving that social media is useful for more than stalking celebrities, the world’s first Twitter Fiction Festival kicks off today.… Read More »
View ArticleDaily book biz round-up: Oprah picks Mandela?; books to make you weep; and more
Today’s book news: Is Oprah’s upcoming book club pick the Nelson Mandela memoir? U.S. Defense Department attempts to buy up… Read More »
View ArticleDaily book biz round-up: Amazon rips off Kindle users; snogging Salman; and more
Today’s book news: Scandal! Amazon charging Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg titles Sex! British media personality sues Sunday Times… Read More »
View ArticleMight give teens violent ideas: the TPL’s 2010 list of challenged books
Freedom to Read Week is a month away, but Toronto Public Library trustee Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler got a jump on the… Read More »
View ArticleBook biz round-up: The revolution will be tweeted, and more
New York-based OR Books will publish Tweets from Tahrir, a compilation of Twitter dispatches from Egypt’s recent political revolution The… Read More »
View ArticleBook biz round-up: Canada’s poor copyright rep, and more
Canada lands on the International Intellectual Property Alliance’s priority watch list as “haven” for international piracy organizations All-nighter term papers… Read More »
View ArticleBibliomania and the not-so-light side of book hoarding
Last week, the National Post‘s Mark Medley wrote a piece about his ever-expanding book collection and the difficulty he has… Read More »
View ArticleAnansi puts Rob Ford on a streetcar
When House of Anansi Press was strategizing its marketing campaign for The Little Book of Rob Ford, a collection of… Read More »
View ArticleU.S. literary journals thrive with low overhead and dedicated audiences
A couple of weeks ago poet Michael Lista got the attention of the publishing Twitterverse with his National Post essay… Read More »
View ArticleAtwood followers crash TPL petition website
Margaret Atwood took to Twitter on Thursday to mobilize her 225,302 followers against the potential privatization and service cuts to… Read More »
View ArticleToronto mayor Rob Ford knows lots of B words
Although Margaret Atwood didn’t attend Thursday night’s marathon Toronto city council executive meeting to address the city’s budget deliberations, she… Read More »
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