- Rare Darwin book found in washroom
- A first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species will go on the auction block 150 years after its publication
- Residential school story wins $25K kids' book award
- Shin-chi's Canoe, a picture book about a little boy leaving home for a residential school, has won the $25,000 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award.
- National Gallery looks at bookstore spinoff
- The National Gallery of Canada is looking for an outside company to operate its bookstore.
- Roth, Banville up for bad sex writing award
- Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth has earned a nomination for the Bad Sex in Fiction award for a scene in The Humbling involving the seduction of a lesbian by an aging stage actor.
- '70s-set New York novel wins U.S. fiction crown
- Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin, a portait of interconnected relationships on one summer day in 1970s New York, has won the prestigious fiction prize at the 60th annual U.S. National Book Awards gala.
- Bush aide Karl Rove publishing memoir in March
- A memoir by Karl Rove, the White House aide who was architect of former president George W. Bush's war on terror, now has a title and a release date.
- Siblin scores at QWF after missing GG award
- The same day he was passed over for a Governor General's award, Eric Siblin won two Quebec Writers' Federation prizes for his non-fiction Bach book, The Cello Suites.
- Vassanji, Pullinger scoop GG's lit awards
- M.G. Vassanji, already celebrated for his fiction, is now a Governor General's Literary Award winner for his evocative memoir, A Place Within: Rediscovering India.
- Harlequin invites writers with self-publishing venture
- Harlequin Enterprises Inc. has teamed up with a leading self-publisher that allows aspiring authors to put their own romance novels in print.
- Kindle comes to Canada without browser
- The Kindle e-book reader is now available to Canadians, Amazon.com announced Tuesday, but without some key features.
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