Description: The Winnipeg Public Library is presenting an exhibition of award-winning magazine ads throughout September. Magazine Power — Best on Page 2010 is on loan from Magazines Canada and is being displayed in the downtown Millennium Library’s Blankstein Gallery on the second floor.

Scheduled Date: 9/8/2010

Description: Auriane and Sebastien de Halleux are at sharp odds over “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” but not about the plot. The problem is that she prefers the book version, while he reads it on his iPad. And in this literary dispute, the couple says, it’s ne’er the twain shall meet.

Scheduled Date: 9/7/2010

Description: As distressing as the news might have been for countless fans who felt robbed of a future, it also meant the world was spared any number of ugly scenarios: the Beatles becoming a pathetic oldies band; The Beatles embracing country-rock, glam, prog rock, disco, punk or rock opera; The Beatles becoming a pale, sorry shadow of their former selves. A band we wished had broken up.

Scheduled Date: 9/3/2010

Description: Students in some Red River College courses will have lighter backpacks this year as they trade their textbooks for technology. At one time, cell phones and personal computers were a big no-no in the classroom but now, not only are they welcome — they are mandatory in some Creative Communications courses at the Winnipeg college.

Scheduled Date: 9/2/2010

Description: A real estate broker sought to bury a negative review that a client posted online after a home buying experience. A banking executive looked to de-emphasize content from Google search results about a convict who shared his name. A woman new to the dating scene wanted to remove some painful references to her online divorce records. All three were in need of an Internet reputation manager, someone who could help save their online reputation by cleaning up undesirable digital footprints.

Scheduled Date: 9/1/2010

Description: It weighs in at more than 130 pounds, but the authoritative guide to the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, may eventually slim down to nothing. Oxford University Press, the publisher, said Sunday so many people prefer to look up words using its online product that it's uncertain whether the 126-year-old dictionary's next edition will be printed on paper at all.

Scheduled Date: 8/31/2010

Description: Kraken Opus, a publisher already known for producing impossibly priced picture books about sports and sports icons, is about to start selling a book about Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar that will include one page that is manufactured from a mix of paper pulp and Tendulkar’s own blood.

Scheduled Date: 8/30/2010

Description: A Minnesota bibliophile found he had too many books for his house so he and his wife bought the house next door, tore it down, and created an expanded library.

Scheduled Date: 8/27/2010

Description: Listening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics.

Scheduled Date: 8/26/2010

Description: 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed?

Scheduled Date: 8/25/2010

Description: People have been talking about "the death of the book" for more than a decade. But recent events suggest the end may be imminent for bound-paper books as we have known them for more than 500 years. Hardbound and paperback books may never totally disappear, but they could become scary scarce — like eight-track tapes, typewriters and wooden tennis rackets.

Scheduled Date: 8/24/2010

Description: Two decades after its birth, the World Wide Web is in decline, as simpler, sleeker services — think apps — are less about the searching and more about the getting.

Scheduled Date: 8/23/2010

Description: Newspaper comic strip “Cathy,” which told of the title character’s struggles with body image and work/life balance, is retiring after 34 years. The final strip will run October 3rd, the comic’s syndicator said.

Scheduled Date: 8/20/2010

Description: Clues found in a 19th-century memoir reveal a French sculptor who appears to have inspired Victor Hugo’s novel.

Scheduled Date: 8/19/2010

Description: It's the latest bid by a major media company to build readership using new devices such as the iPad. The new publication would offer short, snappy stories and operate under the auspices of the New York Post.

Scheduled Date: 8/18/2010

Description: Handwriting is still taught to Australian children, using styles that vary from state to state, from cursive to italics. But the emphasis is much reduced, with the focus on writing fast and legibly. Writing elegantly demands intense practice, and today’s crowded curriculum has little room for the hours past generations spent intently filling their copybooks.

Scheduled Date: 8/17/2010

Description: It's midnight in Mirvish Village in Toronto. Two thousand young people are gathered on the street at the launch of Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic-book epic. O'Malley himself will spend the night politely signing hundreds of posters and books, having his picture taken with gaggles of girls dressed like his drawings, seemingly unfazed by all this hullabaloo. “My mind was blown a long time ago,” he says.

Scheduled Date: 8/13/2010

Description: When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: Just how many books are out there? Counting only things that are printed and bound, we arrive at about 146 million.

Scheduled Date: 8/16/2010

Description: Over the last few years, groups nationwide have adopted the open-source mantra of the software world and started financing open-source books. Experts — often retired teachers or groups of teachers — write these books and allow anyone to distribute them in digital, printed or audio formats. Schools can rearrange the contents of the books to suit their needs and requirements.

Scheduled Date: 8/12/2010

Description: Many students simply do not grasp that using words they did not write is a serious misdeed. It is a disconnect that is growing in the Internet age as concepts of intellectual property, copyright and originality are under assault in the unbridled exchange of online information, say educators who study plagiarism.

Scheduled Date: 8/11/2010

Description: All of them go beyond the simple black-and-white e-book that digitally mirrors its ink-and-paper predecessor. The new multimedia books use video that is integrated with text, and they are best read — and watched — on an iPad, the tablet device that has created vast possibilities for book publishers.

Scheduled Date: 8/10/2010

Description: Publishers of all stripes are struggling with that definition, including children's publishers. Picture books have used artwork as a core part of their storytelling as long as the art form as existed, yet they have always evolved, too. "The printed book hasn't stayed static—look how popular graphic novels are with kids."

Scheduled Date: 7/30/2010

Description: Canadian authors Lisa Moore and Emma Donoghue are two of the 13 names longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced Tuesday. Newfoundlander Moore is listed for February and Donoghue, an Irish transplant based in London, Ont., for her book Room, launching in September.

Scheduled Date: 8/3/2010

Description: With Amazon recently announcing that it was selling more ebooks than hardcover books and my own ebook temporarily held hostage by Penguin, I got to thinking about some of the pros to hardback books. Sure, plenty of people have come up with lists of reasons why ebooks are better than paper books. That's easy. But it's more of a challenge--and less cool--to come up with a bunch reasons why hardcovers are better.

Scheduled Date: 8/4/2010

Description: It’s a familiar undertaking for academics, bookworms and the occasionally curious: furiously scanning the library shelves, lugging out a thick, dusty volume, and thumbing your way through the pages until you’ve found your much sought after entry. However, the act of reaching for that almanac, encyclopedia or dictionary in a local library may soon become a thing of the past, as several Toronto libraries move to reduce their print reference collections.

Scheduled Date: 8/5/2010