Hurrah! Today was the BookNet Canada Tech Forum at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto. The Canadian book publishing industry came together to talk about the future of publishing and some great new ideas were brought forward. This annual event is definitely a highlight of the year for me, offering a chance to step back … Continue Reading
Read this book if you live in Toronto. City politics reporter Edward Keenan has unveiled his analysis of Toronto since amalgamation, examining how neighbourhoods have grown and how they respond to different policies and developments based on their unique circumstances. Framed by this primer on urban development comes Keenan’s analysis of the three mayors since … Continue Reading
Emily Schultz has done it again. She’s delivered a quirky novel that examines our society and values through whacked-out, supernatural situations. The Blondes takes you on a ride with Hazel Hayes, displaced Canadian living the hazy, wandering student life in New York. After a breakout of a new strain of rabies-like disease, affecting only blonde-headed (dyed or … Continue Reading
I’m describing Are You My Mother? to friends as a graphic memoir. Well, it’s definitely not a graphic novel; it’s more a reflection on the author’s own imagination. In this intensely meta book, Alison Bechdel examines her relationship with her mother, her therapists, her girlfriends, and her art through the lens of psychoanalysts Freud, Donald … Continue Reading
“My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!” So says the narrator, Bill, in the final page of In One Person to the son of his former schoolmate. By ending his story with this powerful utterance, the confessional narrative points to its message of embracing differences—all … Continue Reading
Libraries across Canada are looking for an alternative to an ebook purchasing model that has constrained the development of ebook lending. I’m sure you are familiar with the current model, which has ebooks partitioned into a separate section from print books in the online catalogue. Library ebook wholesalers, such as Overdrive and Ebsco, have their … Continue Reading
One of the key problems facing the book publishing industry now is the decline in space for readers to discover books. As more bookstores closed and bookselling spaces are squeezed out with the movement to e-book and online marketplaces, the problem is how readers can connect to books. It’s a problem I’ve struggled with myself, … Continue Reading
This is the second post about my journey working with WordPress Multisite. You can also read my first post on this topic: Developing a WordPress Multisite Network of Sites Using Thesis Theme. My situation is: I am redesigning a website and a blog and I decided to hook them together using WordPress’s Multisite function to make … Continue Reading