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Advanced Book Exchange goes to France

Abebooks.com, also known as the Advanced Book Exchange, has extended its international reach with a new European partnership. The Victoria-based online portal, linking web users with retailers of out-of-print and hard-to-find books, formed a strategic ... Read More »

November 13, 2003 | Filed under: Bookselling

For the week of Oct. 29, 2000

By Q&Q Staff

Hardcover fiction1. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, $37.99 (McClelland & Stewart)2. Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, Stuart McLean, $32.99 (Viking Canada)3. Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards, $32.95 (Doubleday Canada)4. Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, $34.99 (M&S)5. ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Diane Turbide to become editorial director at Penguin

By Q&Q Staff

Penguin Books Canada has lured Diane Turbide away from her post as features editor of the Globe and Mail’s book section. On Dec. 11, Turbide will join Penguin as editorial director.She replaces executive editor Jackie ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Pennies from heaven

By Q&Q Staff

It’s a computer in every home for Random House of Canada employees. Their corporate parent, German-based Bertelsmann AG, has announced that it will provide employees in 14 countries with personal home computers, along with one ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Canadian readers respond to Atwood Booker win

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Booksellers across the country are reporting significantly higher sales of The Blind Assassin in the wake of Margaret Atwood’s historic Booker Prize win on Tuesday. Demand for the novel at Book City has already doubled ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Pyper’s Kiss Me set for HarperCollins reissue

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It’s something of a pattern in the literary publishing biz: young author debuts with small house, moves on to larger house, and larger house buys previous book from small house. But Toronto author Andrew Pyper ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

TD Bank covers massive print run of kids’ book

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The launch of this year’s TD Canadian Children’s Book Week on Monday brought exciting news. Charlie Baillie, chairman and chief executive officer of TD Bank Financial Group, announced that his company will be giving a ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Brunsek to focus on special sales at HarperCollins Canada

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A shifting of the guard is afoot in HarperCollins Canada’s marketing, sales, and publicity departments. Judy Brunsek will hand over her marketing responsibilities to focus exclusively on sales as vice-president of sales, special markets. In ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Fall season blues

By Q&Q Staff

It happens every year in the run-up to the Christmas bookselling rush: one distributor just can’t get its books to stores in time. A few years ago it was Canbook, last year it was General. ... Read More »

November 13, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Chris Keen to head sales and marketing at M&S

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Chris Keen, who has recently been serving as McClelland & Stewart’s acting director of sales and marketing, can now drop the qualifier from his title. The company has officially named Keen to the position, effective ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

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Quill and Quire

Advanced Book Exchange goes to France

For the week of Oct. 29, 2000

Diane Turbide to become editorial director at Penguin

Pennies from heaven

Canadian readers respond to Atwood Booker win

Pyper’s Kiss Me set for HarperCollins reissue

TD Bank covers massive print run of kids’ book

Brunsek to focus on special sales at HarperCollins Canada

Fall season blues

Chris Keen to head sales and marketing at M&S

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