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Non-fictionTechnologyThe Colophon

Breaking up is hard to do: Cory Doctorow argues for the end of corporate concentration online in his new manifesto

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023

What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.

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BooksellingThe Colophon

One month after her attempted retirement, Heather Reisman is back as Indigo CEO

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023

Reisman's return must at least in part be seen as the path of least resistance.

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AwardsPublishingThe Colophon

TIFA announces Alana Wilcox as recipient of the 2023 Ivy Award

September 13, 2023September 13, 2023

Wilcox will receive her award at this year's iteration of TIFA, on September 25.

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Peter Ruis, CEO at Indigo, resigns after only one year, compounding the company’s troubles

September 7, 2023September 7, 2023

The upper-level management shakeups come at a particularly perilous time for Indigo.

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AwardsCanLitThe Colophon

Eleanor Catton and David Bergen are among the twelve writers on the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist

September 6, 2023September 6, 2023

Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.

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BooksellingThe Colophon

Josh Cook peels back the curtain on independent bookselling in his essay collection The Art of Libromancy

September 5, 2023September 6, 2023

Cook acknowledges that some of his ideas may not be shared by others in the industry, or even others in the same store at which he is employed.

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PublishingThe Colophon

Annick Press to extend its mentorship program for marginalized writers

September 5, 2023September 5, 2023

The deadline for submissions to this round of the program is September 29.

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CanLitNovelsThe Colophon

Climate change and political unrest at the end of the world in novels by Tomas Hachard and Michelle Min Sterling

September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.

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AwardsShort FictionThe Colophon

Canadian writer Shashi Bhat on the jury for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

August 30, 2023August 30, 2023

Bhat's new collection is out from M&S in spring 2024.

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CensorshipEducationThe Colophon

AI enlisted to help one Iowa school district determine which books to censor; Canadian publishers caught in Texas school labelling push

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023

Some Canadian children's publishers have been approached about labelling their books.

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