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No ebooks on that cruise, but worth reading anyway.  From BookRiot: It’s hard to determine exactly what books were on board the Titanic during that ill-fated cruise, but Walter Lord tells us in his classic A Night to Remember that at the time the luxury liner struck the iceberg, Spencer V. Silverthorne sat in a leather armchair [...]

The statement that the Canadian publishing industry is hanging by a thread is nothing new -- indeed, fearing the demise of Canadian culture seems to be almost as important to Canadian culture as the creation of Canadian art and literature itself. The bell has tolled for the future of Canadian literature so often that we've learned to tune it out. And through all those warnings, the Canadian publishing industry has found a way to survive.

This time, however, things are different.