Less than 24 hours into a September business trip to New York City, three people had already asked Iris Tupholme the same question: how could they land an invitation to the International Visitors (IV) Programme? ... Read More »
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Saddam Hussein's daughter seeks publisher her for father's memoirs Print books endorsed at World e-Reading Congress Amazon shareholders meeting disturbed by tax protests Robert Pattinson to play Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games sequel Shakespeare's ... Read More »
May 25, 2012 | Filed under: Book links
Indie ebook distributor Smashwords partners with Baker & Taylor to bring titles to Blio and public libraries Oolichan Books is looking for poets named Sue Silicon Valley entrepreneur builds "an ark" of physical books Do ... Read More »
March 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book links, Libraries
You're not going to get close to Brad Pitt, in town this weekend for the premiere of Moneyball, the adaptation of Michael Lewis's baseball book of the same name, but if you're attending the Toronto ... Read More »
September 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
In the July/August issue, Q&Q looks ahead at the fall season's biggest books. NOVELS One of the most anticipated releases of the fall season is surely the new novel from internationally acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje, ... Read More »
Sundry links from around the Web: Robert Fulford on the "long service in the trench warfare of editing" of Oxford University Press's William Toye The Association of American Publishers reports a staggering 116 per cent ... Read More »
Kobo today announced it has closed a new round of financing. The amount of the Series C investment has not been disclosed, but in a statement, the Toronto-based e-publishing company says, Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »
March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Administrators for Australia's bankrupt REDgroup Retail, the company that owns book retail chains Borders, Whitcoulls, and Angus & Roberstson, held their first creditors' meetings on Monday in Melbourne and Auckland, New Zealand. Steve Sherman, from ... Read More »
March 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
First a cache of Dashiell Hammett stories is uncovered among the late author's papers in Texas. Then a novel by the late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño gets serialized in the pages of the Paris Review. ... Read More »
February 28, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
It's been a dismal 24 hours for global bricks-and-mortar booksellers. A day after U.S. chain Borders entered bankruptcy protection, Australia's largest bookstore chain, Angus & Roberts, entered administration, putting in question the future of its ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news