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The Book Room
by John Degen
News, conversations, and random sound from the book business.
Episodes
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Retain Your Rights, Even in the Academy.
How academic authors can help themselves and the cause of author's rights by retaining their copyright, and demanding a royalty for the use of their work. The days of truly not-for-profit educational publishing are over, so why are you gifting your work to the academy? Plus, a quick trip to…
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Canada Decides to Lead Again on Artists' Rights —
Checking back in on an earlier episode in which I took you to Ottawa for Parliamentary testimony from The Writers’ Union of Canada in the matter of Canada’s copyright law review. Yesterday, May 15th 2019, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage released a report containing 22 key...
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Jay Odjick —
A short interview with author, illustrator and television producer Jay Odjick. I first became aware of Jay on Twitter, through his wonderful series of Algonquin Word of the Day tweets in which he provides an illustrated word in the Algonquin language. Jay is an Algonquin artist from the Kitigan...
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Three Cheers for Europe's New Author-Friendly Law —
Today I'm quickly checking back in on an earlier episode to let you know that the European Parliament has indeed voted in favour of progressive new legislation encouraging and protecting professional content, including writing and publishing, across all member states. Finally, there's a group of...
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Talking Books in Parliament —
In the last episode, I took you into a ballroom for an award ceremony. Today, we have another fancy room for you. I’m taking you with me into the Parliament of Canada for a short discussion about the state of writing and publishing in my country, and a specific problem that has plagued the work…
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Fanciness: the RBC Taylor Prize brightens a winter day —
The RBC Taylor Prize for 2019 was awarded in early March at a swanky lunch in Toronto. Come on into the ballroom with me, and listen to Noreen Taylor describe the very beginnings of the prize. You'll also hear a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada introducing Kate Harris, who…
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Peter Penguin —
Between periods of a Toronto Maple Leaf hockey game, I sit down with my old friend Peter to talk about his — somewhat obsessional — love of Penguin paperbacks. We also get into memory loss, and how we both want to buy a turntable and start collecting vinyl again. We're really not as old as we...
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Not Actually a Library —
The world's authors and publishers have come together to protest the unauthorized scanning and release of their books through a website claiming to be a library. For the record... it's not a library. Libraries respect the rights of authors. I talk with one author who found her work online, just…
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Celebrating Reading Freedom at Glad Day Bookshop —
On a very snowy evening in Toronto this week, folks filled the event space at Glad Day Bookshop to hear all about the history of the Freedom to Read in Canada. In this episode of The Book Room, we hear from Marcus McCann, lawyer and co-owner of Glad Day, as he details the bookstore's many run-ins...
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Canada Celebrates Freedom to Read Week
February 24th to March 2nd is Freedom to Read week in Canada. I briefly examine the recent(ish) history of book challenges and book suppression in Canada, and point listeners to FTR Week events of note.
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Many happy authors — Canada's PLR cheques arrive
Today, I celebrate the arrival of a cheque from the federal government as compensation for the use of my three books in Canada's public library system. Over 17,000 authors across Canada are also celebrating. If your country does not have a Public Lending Right system (looking at you, USA), you...
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Europe's Bold New Law Helps Authors
A quick hit in The Book Room to discuss Europe's new law designed to give authors greater control of their work online, and to level the playing field in terms of author contract transparency, and fair royalties. Also, I walk my little dog, Birdy. As always, thanks to Sandy Crawley for the music.
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Book Room changes
In which I apologise for the dormant interviews, and announce a more casual, on the fly, audio experience in the Book Room.
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Ten O'Clock
Big Ben, the hour bell in the Elizabeth Tower in London, chimes out 10 o'clock just as I am leaving Westminster Palace with colleagues after a dinner meeting. March 2017. A few months later, Big Ben fell silent for repairs and renovations, which are expected to end in 2021.
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The Book Room currently has 14 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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News, conversations, and random sound from the book business.
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The Book Room is created and hosted by John Degen.
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