There are some things that have to be pounded away at, even at the risk of committing the unpardonable sin of boring the public, until no one can say they’ve not heard about it, until ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
I had words to burn. Or so I thought. My contract for Red China Blues gave me 150,000 of them. After a newspaper career spent trying to cram complex stories into 1,000 words, I felt ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
What do Prince Charles, Jamie Lee Curtis, The Duchess of York, and Dom DeLuise all have in common? They’ve all written children’s books. Literary interlopers are nothing new, of course, but there does seem to ... Read More »
November 7, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news
One of the few facts I remember from Grade 7 history is that some Viking sailor was blown off course and landed in Newfoundland long before Christopher Columbus fetched up on a Caribbean beach. I ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
ST. JOHN’S–Two library branches in St. John’s have closed in the wake of May’s provincial budget, which saw the public library system of Newfoundland and Labrador lose about 17% from its $6.1-million budget. Five-and-a-half temporary ... Read More »
November 7, 2003
The search has begun for a new executive director for the Canadian Booksellers Association following notice by John Finlay that he won’t seek a reappointment at the end of his three-year term this June. CBA ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
SOMERVILLE GETS LOAN EXTENSIONWith the deadline on their loan guarantees fast approaching, Somerville House and Women’s Press received last-minute assistance from the Ontario government in late December – but that doesn’t mean other Ontario publishers ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
CREATORS WIN COPYRIGHT ROUNDPublishers and collective societies representing creators appear to have emerged as winners after the latest round in the campaign to amend Canada’s dated copyright law. In December, the committee investigating the first ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
KIDS CAN, STODDART TEAM UPKids Can Press and Stoddart Kids are joining forces to build sales south of the border. The two publishers plan to jointly promote, sell, and distribute their books in the U.S. ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
JACK JENSENJack Jensen, who was a senior sales executive for McClelland & Stewart, once worked as none other than Marilyn Monroe’s driver. This is one of the things Chris Keen, vice-president of purchasing at M&S, ... Read More »
November 6, 2003
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