The last remaining inventory of bankrupt Somerville House Books may have a new home by the end of the month, provided the potential buyer can sort out a legacy of tangled rights issues.Key Porter Books ... Read More »
January 27, 2004
What recession? While most of the retail world frets about economic slowdown, independent booksellers are again reporting a profitable Christmas season, with sales gains ranging from modest (a percentage point or two) to significant (double-digit ... Read More »
January 27, 2004
I love reading out loud. I love the shape words assume as they take the air. I love finding a young listener in the audience with her eyes wide with excitement. I read to her. ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Everyone at the Frankfurt Book Fair was talking about e-books and electronic rights, but most publishers offered precious little evidence of a coherent strategy on the issue. Except for Bertelsmann. Here’s a company that in ... Read More »
Elaine Dewar dislikes messy thinking. And uncovering the messy thinking behind the Bering Strait theory is her latest (but long-simmering) mission. That widely accepted theory posits that aboriginal people migrated to North America from Asia ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
For those too busy to stop by their local library for a leisurely browse, the Windsor Public Library has a solution. Members who join the library’s new online book club, Chapter-a-Day, can receive e-mailed excerpts ... Read More »
Dorothy Bogdan, former vice-president of General Publishing, died suddenly on Oct. 12, 2000, at the age of 85. Bogdan joined General Publishing as a secretary in 1965, rising through the purchasing division and then starting ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
In his acceptance speech at the Giller Prize gala on Nov. 2, Michael Ondaatje paid tribute to the recently deceased novelist Carole Corbeil, who had died a month before at the age of 48, after ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Authors
With new fiction lines launched this year by Thomas Allen Publishers and Raincoast Books, and a continuing supply of talent from incubators like the University of British Columbia’s creative writing program, fans of new Canadian ... Read More »
January 27, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
The last big evening of the fall launch season in Toronto began, of all places, at the ChumCity building, the headquarters of Citytv, Bravo!, and MuchMusic. Camera crews wedged themselves into the crowded offices outside ... Read More »
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