BNC Tech Forum roundup

Once again the masterminds at BookNet Canada kept it seriously real at their annual conference, BNC Tech Forum. Overall, the team really got it right this year; the event boasted great speakers, timely information, new, sustainable business models and a general rethinking of the shape of the book business. The theme of the day was [...]

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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 [...]

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