Accelerating change in the book world

"The change from print-books to e-books is happening even faster than Heather predicts." -- Bruce Batchelor

From Mark Tredinnick, Montreal Prize winner: Feeling Great

To win it feels, still, completely improbable. It's a huge delight and a big break and an honour I'll try to keep living up to in my writing.

The Science of the Dolce Vita, by Davide D'Alessandro

Via Veneto, Rome [Photo: Linda Leith]

Why do so many visitors to the mecca of pleasure fail to experience the wonders of the dolce vita? The answer, I submit, lies in psychological research.

The Foreword to Davide D'Alessandro's The Dolce Vita Code.

Movement, migration, and an inhospitable corner of Montreal, by Linda Leith

These Filipinos and Guatamalans and Nigerians live in poverty and in fear and, unlike the immigrants of earlier days, they have little hope, ever, of becoming Canadian citizens. In comparison, the Alis were fortunate, for they could stay here and build a new life for themselves.