What Would Peggy Nature do?

I will warn you (and any of her spies) that this post will reference Margaret Atwood. Let it be noted that, because I am a young, superstitious person hacking away at a career in publishing, and because I believe that any unflattering reference to the queen of CanLit carries a curse of horrible failure, all [...]

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BookCampTO

This Saturday, Cheese and I (along with my friend Kevin) attended BookCampTO, a grassroots “unconference,” whose mandate was to have “A conversation about the future of books, writing, publishing, and the book business in the digital age.”
So, while I didn’t bring my laptop and tweet throughout the day, here are a few summaries, observations and [...]

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To e, or not to e?

We’re talking about readers, not ravers, here of course.  Here’s the down-low: my stepdad won a Sony ebook reader (a Sony Reader PRS 550 to be precise) at a conference, and passed it on to me, saying I could use it or sell it. That was a month ago, and I still haven’t decided.
I thought [...]

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