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Distant early warning for this year’s GG Awards

The accidental pre-announcement of this year’s Governor General’s Award results may have removed what little suspense surrounds the awards – the winners and their publishers are traditionally notified two weeks in advanceanyway – but the ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

MacLeod repeats as Drummer General’s winner

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It’s been an unusual awards season, with a Giller Prize tie and a premature announcement of the Governor General’s Award winners. And now Richard Bachmann, owner of A Different Drummer Books in Burlington, Ontario, has ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Breakwater sells Morgan novels to Irish publisher

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Newfoundland’s Breakwater Books has sold rights to two Bernice Morgan novels, 1992’s Random Passage and 1994’s Waiting For Time, to Irish publisher Mentor Books. The books, which are set amid Newfoundland’s first outport settlements, should ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Chapters Online lays off 73 staffers, will drop editorial content

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Chapters Online laid off 73 staff members yesterday in a move to reduce operating costs. Spokesperson Kevin Lennon, owner of Trillium Corporate Communications, says the layoffs represented approximately 18% of staff and “affected all areas ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

BookExpo Canada: advisers address attendance issue

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Reed Exhibition Companies has enlisted publishers, booksellers, and association administrators to form an advisory board for the first BookExpo Canada – and members suggest that its fi rst concern will be boosting the show’s declining ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s third-quarter results

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McGraw-Hill Ryerson reported strong revenue and profit growth in the third quarter, but said continuing poor results in the company’s trade division would keep year-over-year growth well below the trend of recent years. Total revenues ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

Poetry in motion, part 1

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The League of Canadian Poets is branching out into online bookselling with Poetry Spoken Here, a poetry-themed e-commerce site that was offically launched on Wednesday. Accessible from the league’s site at www.poets.ca, the online store ... Read More »

November 13, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Poetry in motion, part 2

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Canadian café-goers who missed the Bohemian Embassy era of Milton Acorn and Gwendolyn MacEwen – or who mourn never having heard Dorothy Livesay, Earle Birney, or F.R. Scott read – can take heart. Those late ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

American psycho: U.S. payday for Gray

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John MacLachlan Gray’s next novel won’t reach bookstores until 2002, but it’s already gathering steam; St. Martin’s Press has acquired American rights for a reported $150,000 U.S. The Fiend in Human is a thriller set ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

For the week of Nov. 5, 2000

By Q&Q Staff

Hardcover fiction1. Winter’s Heart, Robert Jordan, $39.95 (Tor Books/H.B. Fenn)2. The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood, $37.99 (McClelland & Stewart)3. Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, Stuart McLean, $32.99 (Viking Canada)4. Mercy Among the Children, David Adams Richards, $32.95 ... Read More »

November 13, 2003

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Distant early warning for this year’s GG Awards

MacLeod repeats as Drummer General’s winner

Breakwater sells Morgan novels to Irish publisher

Chapters Online lays off 73 staffers, will drop editorial content

BookExpo Canada: advisers address attendance issue

McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s third-quarter results

Poetry in motion, part 1

Poetry in motion, part 2

American psycho: U.S. payday for Gray

For the week of Nov. 5, 2000

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