Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Federal help for Y2K

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For small companies facing the Y2K dilemma with a shortage of staff or capital, the federal government is offering two forms of assistance: a low-cost assessment service and a new tax break on replacement expenses ... Read More »

October 24, 2003

Letter from Caracas

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The scene is a departure lounge at Caracas International Airport. We are all bound for Miami and there is weather. The departure time comes and goes. The information signs do not change. If the ground ... Read More »

October 24, 2003

Letters

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A questionable commitmentYour editorial “Who is Canadian?” (Mar. 1999) implies that ownership and control are of no consequence when it comes to cultural production, i.e. that Penguin Books Canada can fill any void left by ... Read More »

October 24, 2003

Calling the BCP

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We’ve heard many complaints in recent months about the fact that a combined Random House and Doubleday of Canada would control a greater portion of the book market than the five largest Canadian-owned trade publishers.We’ve ... Read More »

October 24, 2003

Tie-ins

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• David Cronenberg’s futuristic thriller Existenz comes to the big screen in April courtesy of Alliance Atlantis. Bodyguard Ted Pikul must protect the creator of a virtual-reality game from terrorists while safely navigating the worlds ... Read More »

October 24, 2003

A publishing pioneer

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The Canadian publishing industry lost a well-known and highly respected colleague on June 11 with the death of Gladys E. Neale, 84. Miss Neale, who died at home in Toronto, played a pioneering role in ... Read More »

October 22, 2003

Brass in pocket

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Gwendolyn MacEwen, the noted Toronto writer, achieved soaring critical success during her career, twice winning the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. But MacEwen earned little from her writing, and, upon her death in 1987, had ... Read More »

October 22, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Letters

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This “war” can be avertedRe: “The next copyright fight” (Aug. 1999)I was sorry to see that John Tooth’s “war” on copyright included an attack on Margaret Atwood.Creators and creators’ organizations are indeed grateful to Atwood ... Read More »

October 22, 2003 | Filed under: Book news

Year of the horse

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It’s often possible to determine the importance of an issue in the book industry by the extent to which people don’t want to talk about it.So even though publishers have been noticeably quiet in public ... Read More »

October 22, 2003