Lulu.com is reporting that it was the top source of independent content on the iBookstore and Nook Bookstore last year. According to a Friday post on the Lulu site, ebook creators published 115,517 new ebooks on Lulu.com in 2011, an increase of 22 per cent over 2010. More than 60,000 of those titles are now… [Read more…]
February 16, 2012
Edinburgh will set itself aglow with literary history next month as part of the Scottish capital’s push to raise its profile as a world cultural centre. The two-week event, Enlighten, will see animated interpretations of Enlightenment quotations projected onto historic buildings in the city’s New Town area. The words of David Hume, James Hutton, Allan… [Read more…]
February 5, 2012
CBC News reports that Nova Scotia children’s author Joyce Barkhouse has died following a heart attack. She was 98. The author of eight books and many children’s stories, she was probably best known for Pit Pony, the story of a boy and his horse working in the Cape Breton coal mines, which was published in… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
Rabble.ca writer Wayne MacPhail is enthusiastic about the new Apple iBooks Author as a tool for journalists and publishers of long-form content. Apple introduced the iBooks Author last month as part of its plunge into the educational/textbook market, but MacPhail thinks the publishing software could serve as a platform for a new form of media-rich… [Read more…]
February 4, 2012
Jonathan Franzen is definitely not jumping on the ebook bandwagon. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph’s Anita Singh, the author of Freedom and The Corrections said he prefers a more permanent technology. “The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom,” he told Singh. “I can spill water on it and it… [Read more…]
January 17, 2012
MacRumors suggests Apple may be gearing up for a major announcement this Thursday on a new eBooks publishing tool for authors and publishers. Citing the Wall Street Journal and ArsTechnica, MacRumors said Apple may be coming out with a tool that would make the publishing process as easy as creating a song in GarageBand. MacRumors… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
Type Books on Toronto’s Queen St. West has garnered unexpected international attention with its You Tube sensation, The Joy of Books. The stop-action animation has gone viral since being posted January 9. By week’s end, more than one million people had viewed the video, which has also been featured on major television stations in Canada.… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
Toronto is set to start the new year with the loss of yet another independent book store. Local media reports say the Book Mark is set to close by the end of this month. The store, which is located on Bloor Street West in Etobicoke, claims to be Toronto’s oldest independent bookstore, with more than… [Read more…]
January 3, 2012
Rumours are swirling around the Mac world that Apple is planning an iBook-related announcement in New York at the end of January. Neither the location nor the topic of the announcement has been confirmed, but speculation has it that the event will focus on publishing and e-books sold through the Apple’s iBooks platform. Alexia Tsotsis… [Read more…]
January 2, 2012
Ontario high school students can strut their creating writing stuff in a competition sponsored by the International Festival of Authors Ontario and Ontario Open Book. Writers Ian Rankin, Joanna Skibsrud and Miriam Toews have provided short story-starters. Students are encouraged to select one of them as a jumping off point, then complete the story in… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012
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