Stewart House Publishing is facing a new lawsuit – one that names Quarry Press as a co-defendant.The Music Sales Corporation of New York filed a claim for more than $40,000 against the two publishers on ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Bogged down with distribution dilemmas and office boredom? The holiday party season kicks into high gear next week with two regular book-trade events, including – back from a hiatus last year – the Book Publishing ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Random House of Canada launched its first online charity auction yesterday to support the Toronto-based literacy group Frontier College. Random will place packages of books and related items up for bids on eBay Canada’s Charity ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
E-books may have languished in Canada for years, but there are new signs that the trade hasn’t given up on the format. A group of campus bookstores has been selling e-books online this fall, and ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Shopping a book you think would make a great movie? Here are some people in the Canadian film and TV business you should know.Richard Stursberg, executive director,Telefilm CanadaThe film and TV production support agency is ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Bella Pomer, patrician literary agent, is not impressed.Invited to the Sutton Place Hotel in Toronto in early November to network with local film and TV producers eager to adapt Canadian novels for the big screen, ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Literary agent Michael Levine knows better than anyone how to manoeuvre in the briar patch of Canadian film and television.A partner at Goodman Phillips & Vineberg in Toronto since 1982, and currently chairman of Westwood ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Here’s the scenario. It’s payday. Your cheque doesn’t come, so you send your boss an invoice and wait a week. The cheque still doesn’t come. You e-mail to enquire about the status of your salary. ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Booksellers barely had time to push Yann Martel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi to the front of their display windows when word arrived in early November that a Brazilian author had accused Martel of ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
Despite a general mood of unease surrounding this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair in October, Canadian attendees left the event happy, citing full meeting schedules and wide interest from foreign buyers. And Canadian novels were among ... Read More »
January 7, 2004
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