Daily book biz round-up: e-readers read you; manga crackdown; and more

Today’s book news:

• Your e-reader knows too much
• Oprah’s Dickens picks not flying off shelves
• Sorry boys: Japanese cracking down on “extreme sex acts” in manga titles
• Orange Prize judges announced
• Room and The Imperfectionists make B&N Best of 2010 list

Daily book biz round-up: book hunting on Google eBooks; when Franzen met Oprah; and more

Today’s book news:

• MobyLives goes book hunting on Google eBooks
• Salon’s Laura Miller picks the best fiction and non-fiction of 2010
• WikiLeaks defector writes tell-all book (but it’s in German, so don’t get too excited)
• EW on the long-awaited meeting of Franzen and Oprah
• Lisa Moore and Emma Donoghue make New Yorker‘s best of 2010 list

Daily book biz round-up: Oprah likes Dickens; Atwood likes Wilkie Collins; and more

Today’s book news:

• Oprah chooses two Dickens classics for her book club
• PW names the notable newsmakers of 2010
• Borders may take over Barnes & Noble
• Margaret Atwood likes Wilkie Collins
• A new web hub for teenage authors is launched
• Natalie Portman wears Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a handbag

Daily book biz round-up: Jonathan Franzen sells better with Oprah; Stephen King acts; and more

Today’s book news:

• First authorized book on U.K.’s MI6 says that James Bonds existed
• Oprah-stamped Freedom takes Stieg Larsson’s place atop Amazon bestsellers list
• Stephen King guest stars in a TV series
• Toronto mayor David Miller discusses his new book
• Cultural critic, activist, and author Jill Johnston dies

Daily book biz round-up: Oprah and Franzen all but confirmed; WSJ book section slammed; and more

Today’s book news:

• MobyLives breaks out the smoking gun: a copy of Freedom with an Oprah sticker
• New Wall Street Journal book section sparks conflict-of-interest concerns
• Michael Lewis tops Business Book of the Year Award shortlist
• Final David Foster Wallace title unveiled
• The Millions on reading YA as an adult

Daily book biz round-up: Oprah’s arrow points to Franzen again; Google mangles your literary faves; and more

Today’s book news:

• MobyLives says that Oprah is picking Freedom (We don’t know who to trust anymore!)
• President Obama to write dull-looking children’s book
• Amazon attacks iPad for being too shiny
• David Foster Wallace archive debuts today
• How Google Voice mangles literature’s most famous opening lines

Daily 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 new memoir in order to destroy it
• Al the cool kids heading to the Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend
• Meanwhile, actual kids head to Toronto’s Roald Dahl Festival
• Twitter users overshare about books that made them cry

Daily book biz round-up: new Oprah pick coming; money for Ontario textbooks?; and more

Today’s book news:

• Oprah prepares to announce new book club pick, and it’s not Freedom
• Scholastic Book Club takes new marketing approach
• Dalton McGuinty makes vague reference to helping Ontario schools cover cost of textbooks
• Penguin sues sports writer over undelivered bio
• Century 21 scoops up former Barnes & Noble space before corpse is even cold
• EW uncovers shocking Hollywood prejudice: authors not asked to be on Dancing With the Stars
• Delightful literary oddities available on EBay

Daily book biz round-up: battle over The Shack; FOX News attacked; and more

Check these out:

• The bitter legal battle over proceeds from The Shack
• Kitty Kelley’s Oprah to be turned into TV movie
• A Chicago librarian rips into FOX News library exposé
• Seth brings new look to CNQ
• A secret writer’s retreat, right in the middle of NYC
• B.C. author John Vaillant talks to PW about The Tiger
• Video: first look at an upcoming doc about children’s books

Lady links: this week in women writers

• Vancouver’s Amber Dawn profiled on the Shameless blog about debut novel Sub Rosa published by Arsenal Pulp Press
• Novelist Anne Fleming recommends Jane Rule in Capital Xtra‘s new literary column
• Brooklyn-based, Canadian-born novelist Emily St. John Mandel discusses structure on The Millions
• The Gazette profiles three poets: Kate Hall, Priscila Uppal, and Robyn Sarah
• Susan Carpenter reviews controversial Oprah bio by Kitty Kelley
• New book by beloved Canadian poet Anne Carson reviewed in The Globe and Mail