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The New Globe & Mail Books

January 13, 2009

As announced in December last year, The Globe and Mail replaced its standalone Books tabloid with a combined ‘Focus and Books’ section this weekend, simultaneously launching a new Books website that will feature, amongst other things, daily book reviews, news on books and the publishing industry, and blogs by Globe Book’s online communities editor Peter [...]

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“A hint of optimism”

December 10, 2008

Publishers Weekly is reporting that following “one of publishing’s bleakest weeks” in living memory, there’s a reason for us to keep on living in the form of two recent digital announcements from Penguin and Random House. Penguin have launched Penguin 2.0 which includes more online content, e-books and POD, as well as an app imaginatively [...]

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Monday Miscellany, Nov 3rd, 2008

November 3, 2008

The extraordinarily cool binding for Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (Ubu the King), a collaboration between bookbinder Mary Reynolds and Marcel Duchamp, as seen at blog.rightreading (pictured). Editor Chuck Adams interviewed in the November Poets & Writers Magazine. A very interesting–albeit very commercial–perspective: “For too long, in New York, we’ve been in this culture of publishing [...]

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My Internet (or the importance of contact information)

October 23, 2008

Ben Terrett’s My Internet (redesigned and posted by Michael at DesignNotes): My internet also includes clearly accessible contact details from the word go. It’s amazing how often we (marketing monkeys, publishers, media types) get this wrong. My internet doesn’t include contact forms either. I would like to email a person please. And don’t even get [...]

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Monday Miscellany, Oct 6, 2008

October 6, 2008

‘Celebrity’ authors, including A.M. Homes and Jonathan Lethem, create “Flash Fiction” stories inspired by images from Diesel’s fall ad campaign (pictured). (Thanks Siobhan!) Live and Learn: Heather Reisman. The founder and CEO of the Indigo chain of bookshops in Canadian Business magazine: “I do believe a new paradigm of values is emerging. It rejects sweatshops. [...]

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