Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

To ban or not to ban?

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Heather Reisman made national news in early December by advising staff that stores in the Chapters/Indigo chain would no longer stock Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. While some customers criticized the decision, comparing Reisman to a ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

What’s ahead?

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They say you should never look to the past to predict the future. For the book business, this is probably a good thing. After a difficult two years, the industry should end 2002 healthier than ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Beauchemin moves to Fides

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A six-figure advance and promises of better quality production have lured best-selling Quebec writer Yves Beauchemin from his longtime publisher Éditions Québec Amérique to Fides, in one of the most lucrative deals in Quebec publishing ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

A very Brady Christmas?

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A new Stoddart Kids hockey-inspired series has started its rookie season with a winning streak. The first two Brady Brady picture books, Brady Brady and the Runaway Goalie and Brady Brady and the Great Rink, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

InstaBook quick facts

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• System includes a computer and modem, colour and black-and-white laser printers, collator, binder, and trimmer that produces paperback books in a 5.5-by-8.5-inch format.• Cost: $35,000 (U.S.).• Lease terms: to be announced.• Commissions: 30% of ... Read More »

January 26, 2004

Who will get new export funding?

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The Department of Canadian Heritage recently announced a $32-million funding program for increasing cultural exports to foreign markets. But Suzanne Bossé, executive director of the Association for the Export of Canadian Books, says publishers will ... Read More »

January 26, 2004