When you’re richer than the Queen, you’re bound to attract some money-hunting crazies. J.K. Rowling and her publisher Bloomsbury are rejecting “unfounded, unsubstantiated, and untrue” plagiarism claims from the estate of...

Back in 1997, Coach House Books was the first publisher in Canada to make available online editions of its books. The online texts were free, and readers were invited to tip the author. “All of the money was given to the author directly,” recalls...

Richard Lea at the Guardian blog: If you can’t get Roth, Palin, or Rowling on the Kindle, what can you get? David Suzuki’s garbage gets combed through for incriminating Kraft Dinner boxes, and now archeologists are looking at what the Bard may have...

Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin’s publicist admits it was a mistake to try barring foreign journalists from a book-signing event Poet, playwright, and activist Sky Gilbert comes out as “no longer gay“ Rick Moody’s Tweeted short story is...

Backstage at the PEN Canada benefit “Cockburn & Ondaatje: An Evening of Music and Words”, which was held at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Theatre on Nov. 21. From left: Bruce Cockburn, Lydia Cacho (the recipient of PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award), musician...

According to a report in The Guardian, a U.K. arts minister is proposing that the nation’s libraries take the unprecedented step of becoming booksellers as well as lenders: Libraries risk sleepwalking through the century unless radical ideas are...