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Everyone has books they can’t bear to part with. Whether due to sentimental or decorative value, or just the fear of parting with something you may one day want to read again (“What if I need to relearn high school geometry someday?”), the things we read have a...

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Gillian Stevens is a photographer and stylist with an authorial eye for detail. Her work is akin to storytelling—with subtle details to evoke memory and feeling. With her unabashed love of stories it should come as no surprise that Gillian is an avid...

First it was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Then Gone Girl, then The Girl on the Train. Each girl upended expectations and had booklovers clamoring for more. Now, with summer just around the corner, we asked our crack team of bookseller to share their candidates for...

The Economist’s Canada Summit attracted a jam-packed lineup of business luminaries and big name politicians (including the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau) to discuss the future of the Canadian economy – and how disruption is a necessary exercise in the quest for global success. As the...

When Kobo’s Operations Director, told us she was going to be spending fifteen days vacationing in Hawaii—we gave her the usual response: “have fun and take lots of pics!” What we didn’t expect was that she’d document her holiday almost solely through smartly staged photos of her...

Day One: The six-hour drive from Toronto to Montreal can be a real slog. Luckily my partner Yuna and I have the backseat to ourselves and a couple digital copies of The Passage by Justin Cronin to keep us occupied (we’re both reading it!). It’s a perfect...

Alyson Noël knows how to pack a lot into a day. The award-winning author of 23 novels, including eight on the New York Times bestsellers list, is nothing if not busy. Now, a month removed from the release of Unrivaled—the first book in a thrilling suspense trilogy about...

Kathy Buckworth does it all: an award-winning writer, public speaker and television personality, she balances a dynamic career with raising four kids. When she gets a bit of down time, she's usually writing a book--she currently has six to her name, including I Am So The Boss of...

We’ve come a long way since we were a handful of people in a small windowless room, dreaming of the day we’d reach 1000 books available on site. Today Kobo deliver’s eBooks in 97 languages to millions of users in 190 countries around the world. Thanks to amazing...

When Iggy Pop wrote the song “Lust for Life” in 1977, he may well have had Evelyn Hannon in mind. As founder and editor of Journeywoman, a travel blog for women that has dominated the category since she created it in 1997, Hannon has lived more in her...