Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Barbara Steele knows many, many facts about the people who darken the doors of the cavernous outlets of Costco Wholesale, where she’s the lead book buyer. The membership forms they must fill out yield a ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

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By now, you’ll have been inundated with coverage of the collapse of Stoddart Publishing and General Distribution Services. Commentators (maybe even in this issue of Q&Q) are trotting out their oft-heard opinions: government publishing policy ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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The book business was around long before Jack Stoddart and will persist long after him, but in Canada it seems peculiarly associated with him. A distributor since the 1950s, and a publisher for almost 20 ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

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For George Brady, the publication of Hana’s Suitcase is bittersweet. The book raises horrific memories of the Holocaust, but also provides him with a long-awaited sense of resolution. “Now I can sleep at night,” he ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

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It used to be photocopying. Now growing numbers of students looking to beat what they see as the high cost of textbooks are turning to the dark corners of the Internet to trade bootlegged university ... Read More »

January 14, 2004

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The Canadian Booksellers Association is on rocky financial ground. So rocky, in fact, that the association’s own auditors are questioning the group’s financial viability, and its own president is openly frustrated with its operations. Booksellers, ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Deals