Digital lit: How new ways to read mean new ways to write

By On July 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

 KATE TAYLOR Globe and Mail
Last updated Monday, Jul. 11, 2011

 

The Next Day is a graphic novel about people who have attempted suicide. Once it is posted online in September, you’ll be able to click your way through it according to your own preferences about how it should unfold. [...]

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E-books outselling print at Amazon.com

By On May 19, 2011 · 1 Comment

Since April 1, Amazon.com has sold 105 e-books, not including free e-books, for every 100 print books. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Online bookstore Amazon.com now sells more e-books than all hardcover and paperback print books combined.

“We had high hopes that this would happen eventually, but we never imagined it would happen this quickly,” said Jeff Bezos, [...]

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Reference books to e-books

By On April 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Local companies benefit from innovation centre

Updated: Sun Apr. 10 2011 4:40:30 PM

ctvottawa.ca

Tech companies live and die by the quality of their innovation and new ideas.

Translating ideas into new companies needs support, and a Gatineau firm is on the receiving end of some help from a newly expanded centre that does just [...]

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No e-books without authors, Atwood reminds us

By On March 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment

ROSALIND PORTER Globe and Mail Update Published Wednesday, Mar. 16, 2011 3:00AM EDT Last updated Thursday, Mar. 17, 2011 10:36AM EDT

 

When Margaret Atwood opened the annual Tools of Change for Publishing conference in New York last month, it felt like something of a coup for us publishers. At a moment when our business [...]

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