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TV Week trounces last days of TV Guide *
In September 2004, TV Week magazine doubled its editorial content. In addition to its comprehensive TV listings, the magazine refocused its editorial to target women by adding new columns about health, home, recipes and shopping. [More]

Amazon dot ca (Amazon.ca) *
Amazon.ca offers fast shipping (often within two business days), and no border hassles for Canadians -- shop in Canadian dollars, too. [More]

Amazon dot ca (en français) *
Les canadiens peuvent acheter des livres -- dans les dollars Canadiens -- en français... (shopping -- in Canadian dollars -- in French) [More]

Amazon dot com *****
Amazon.com is our tried-and-true source for books, kitchen equipment, DVDs and more. We love their fast shipping and reasonable prices, too! [More]

Amazon dot UK *
Live in the UK? Here's where to order books! [More]

Amazon to join retailing fracas with cuts in prices *
Amazon.ca will launch an aggressive push next year on cutting its prices even further to offer the best deals in Canada, yet another challenge for domestic retailers already overwhelmed by steep competition. [More]

Amazon.com's new on-site search function *
Here's an interesting new wrinkle from Amazon.com -- You could win a Segway Transporter for your opinion of how well the new feature works! [More]

Beyond the Crazy House: Changing the Future of Madness -- This way madness lies *
Psychiatric survivor Pat Capponi has successfully rebuilt her life despite a mental-health system that sees patients as diseases and not as people. [More]

Bonnie gets the Star treatment *
Vanity Fair has pushed the envelope of cattiness with its latest profile of Canadian-born celebrity magazine editor Bonnie Fuller. [More]

Copps cuts magazine dollars *
Smaller pot of cash to be made available to a larger number of periodicals -- but it may spell the end for magazines like Homemaker's. [More]

December 19, 2002: Books are so easy (part one) *
Books are one of my favourite gift items because they are always welcome, one-size-fits-all, and they are just so easy to wrap. [More]

Google offers book searches *
On-line search leader Google Inc. is becoming more bookish. . . [More]

Harry Potter and the Big Hoopla *
Up and down Vancouver's Oak Street late Friday night, droves of 20-somethings -- Harry Potter fans -- were wearing scarves in the colours of Gryffindor and flowing capes and wielding magic wands in hopes of being among the first to read the highly anticipated seventh book. [More]

Hey Nostradamus: The massacre motif ***
Douglas Coupland's new novel draws on the memory of the tragic shooting at Columbine High School. And he's not alone. Other novelists and filmmakers are daring to go there too, CAROL TOLLER writes [More]

In a dumb America, even Playboy looks smart *
Playboy magazine's January issue, which is on sale now, is a special 50th-anniversary edition. In Toronto, the occasion means that we will be treated to a visit by the centrefold, Miss January, who will be signing copies of herself at a downtown newsstand at lunchtime tomorrow. [More]

Indigo Books & Music *
Indigo was created in 1996 by and for booklovers, and merged with Chapters Inc. in August 2001 to become Canada’s largest books retail chain. Indigo Books & Music Inc. is committed to being your most complete and trusted resource for books, music, gifts and much more. [More]

Iris Murdoch's library goes on auction block *
Four years after Iris Murdoch's death, her husband is selling the nearly 1000 books collected and annotated by the late author over six decades, auctioneers said Monday. [More]

iUniverse *
The world's biggest independent publishing source -- and a big bookstore of hard-to-find titles. [More]

Layoffs, union vote hit Maclean's *
Staffers are expected to join CEP in the wake of job cuts and a bureau closing. [More]

New concept from Amazon.com *
Do you order a lot of books from Amazon.com? If so, this might save you some bucks. [More]

Paperbacks for Summer Reading *
Alison Gzowski's selction of your 2003 summer's best bets... [More]

Potter magic -- Book breaks sales records *
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final volume of J.K. Rowling's all-conquering fantasy series, sold a mountainous 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the United States, according to Scholastic Inc. [More]

Powells.com *
Considered by many to be the best bookstore in the world, Powell's has a longstanding tradition for finding the hard-to-find, and selling books, videos, CDs and gifts at prices that are highly competitive. [More]

Radar: Not another 'celebrity kiss-ass magazine' *
Talk magazine survivor Maer Roshan launches Radar, SIMON HOUPT reports: "It's amazing what a guy can accomplish when he drops Tina Brown's name." [More]

Shop talk -- Books about the Shopping Condition *
Already the stores are full of Christmas offerings, but as RYAN BIGGE writes, not everyone loves to shop till they drop. [More]

The missing link *
Studies show that an old-fashioned educational tool -- the school library -- affects students' marks more than we think, writes JOHN ALLEMANG [More]

The Scorpions Strike: Green Stone of Healing Book Three *****
The Scorpions Strike is face-paced, action-packed and full of surprises. Just when you think you have figured out where these events might be heading, everything you imagined is thrown out the window. [More]

The Two Best Travel Guides (Keyes overview) *
I've done my fair share of globe-trotting, and for my money the two best guidebook series for major cities are the ones by the Time Out people and the ones under the Eyewitness Travel imprint of the Dorling Kindersley publishers. [More]

Valentines from the Doghouse *
In the doghouse because you've left Valentine's Day too late? [More]

Vancouver Public Library Annual Book Sale *
Thursday, July 5, 2007: 10:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m.; Friday, July 6, 2007: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Vancouver, BC. [More]

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Amazon to offer book content *
Amazon.com is pushing an ambitious plan that would create an on-line searchable archive of tens of thousands of nonfiction books, according to reports. [More]

Chocolat covers postal walks *
You can move, but can't hide, from new Rogers magazine. . . [More]

Clarke reaps third prize for Hoe *
Austin Clarke made it a hat trick last night when he added the £10,000 ($22,300) Commonwealth Writers Prize to the laurels he has already won for The Polished Hoe (Thomas Allen). [More]

Cocktails: Shaken and Stirred (Garber review) *****
Stylishly photographed and scrupulously detailed, this is a book that every aspiring bartender will consider a must-have; and it's attractive enough to stand as a coffee-table volume for a gift. [More]

Death in the family *
The Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy, awarded at a lavish dinner last week, is an award I have, in the past, unkindly dubbed "The Giller for Nerds." But I have also defended it on the grounds that, although almost all of these books are virtually guaranteed to go unread except in specialized circles (academics and bureaucrats), they are important contributors to the whither Canada? debate. [More]

December 21, 2002: Books are so easy (part two) *
Part two of three -- more books for easy last-minute buying and giving. [More]

Empire Lite: Living with the big guy *
The U.S. is morphing from republic into empire -- at some cost to its own democracy. But it will only crush Canada if we let it, says political scientist JAMES LAXER [More]

Garber on Business: Writing -- Breaking into the world of trade magazines *
Everything from finding new markets to writing your first query letter is summarized here. [More]

Hipster history surprisingly straight *
However authorized their beginnings, many histories end up as unauthorized. The historian is attacked by grumpy peers and, as the years pass, his work is dismissed as racist, or eurocentric, or naive, and a new authorized version is embraced. The disclaimer here is a reference, presumably, to George Bowering being a novelist and poet rather than a historian. [More]

Jeffery Deaver's The Cold Moon (Garber review) ****
Fresh on the heels of last year's The Twelfth Card, suspense-master Jeffery Deaver is back with the seventh instalment in his best-selling Lincoln Rhyme series . . . [More]

Motherhood's last taboo *
First came Chick Lit, those ditzy novels about giggling "girls" of 35 who couldn't pay their credit card bills, or find a guy, or whose stiletto heels got stuck in a sidewalk grating and they fell off their shoes flat onto their faces, which used to be their fortune but were now bleeding and broken. They were washed up, just like Chick Lit, which is long gone. [More]

Ondaatje unveils book prize *
This literary award is a little different in that it embraces both fiction and non-fiction, SANDRA MARTIN writes [More]

Random House axes editor-at-large Pearce *
Random House of Canada has eliminated its editor-at-large position, effectively firing John Pearce from his job as one of Canada's most influential publishers. [More]

Super Sonic Book Signing of Baker's Dozen *
December, 2003, Seattle, WA [More]

Translators drop off book fronts *
House of Anansi has stopped crediting translators on book covers in hopes of attracting new readers. The translators, RAY CONLOGUE writes, are not amused [More]

Vancouver Public Library's annual book sale underway *
Much as it pains me to share this info (as I plan to brave the line-ups tomorrow and attend myself), I am honour-bound to divulge that the Vancouver Public Library's annual book purge is underway today. [More]