Category: publishing

“if Jane Austen lived today, she’d be an avid blogger, she’d be on Facebook, and of course she’d also be tweeting away–but mostly about other people, not herself.”

Hate a review? One author did, and now he’s suing the reviewer.

Celebrity cookbooks reign supreme at Christmas in the U.K. But now the chefs have to up their game – with apps, of course.

“You finish a book. Websites, like space, can go on forever.” What does that mean for digital books?

E-books might take off even more if we could show the aspirational covers of the things we’ve downloaded. Because that’s what bookshelves are for – our lies and our realities.

“Ikea novels are the kind of fiction that comes direct from the factory, with no intercession of craftsmanship or artistry en route to the consumer. They are created by often talented writers, frantic to make a career.”

“Q: I also wanted to ask you about the difficulty of actually writing something that is connected with real history.
A: Well, I never tried anything like that before, and I’m not sure that I would ever want to try again, because, man, it was too much like work.”

“Tuesday night, as Esi Edugyan was giving her thank-you speech after winning the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize — Canada’s richest literary award — a “technical gaffe” ended the CBC-produced show. The author was cut off mid-sentence when the show Homes by Design started promptly at 10 p.m.”

“It’s only a table and a couple of bookshelves, set up for the moment opposite the Starbucks that protesters have attracted such criticism for using, but StarBooks sees a steady flow of books being borrowed, books being dropped off. There’s a constant trickle of donations as well.”

Feminist theologian Dr. Eske Wollrad says, “It is not that the figure of Pippi Longstocking is racist, but that all three in the trilogy of books have colonial racist stereotypes.” Astrid Lindgren’s daughter, Karin Nyman, begs to differ.