Broadview Press is posting a small loss for 2007 even as net sales increased by 6% to nearly $4.4-million. The firm, which announced last week the sale of part of its list to competing academic ... Read More »
March 31, 2008
Illustrator Stéphane Jorisch has won the 2007 IBBY Canada Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award for The Owl and the Pussycat (Kids Can Press), based on the well-known poem by Edward Lear. The $1,000 award ... Read More »
March 31, 2008
Newfoundland author Kathleen Winter has won the $5,000 Winterset Award for her novel boYs (Biblioasis). This year's other nominees were George A. Rose's Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries (Breakwater Books) and ... Read More »
March 28, 2008
Douglas Coupland and Will Ferguson are among the five nominees for this year’s Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The shortlist ranges from big publishing to small: Random House Canada, McClelland & Stewart, and Penguin ... Read More »
March 28, 2008
Q&Q asked author Roy MacSkimming to look at the history of the Canadian book-biz, and to name five people who changed everything. CanLit has evolved like a coral reef: rich in biodiversity, with most of ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
There’s nothing like a list to get people talking. At least, that’s what we’re hoping. Here at Q&Q, we’ve come up with one of our own – 30 people in the book industry who most ... Read More »
March 27, 2008
The City of London, in partnership with the University of Western Ontario and the London Public Library, has released this year's picks for the fifth annual London Reads campaign. The five books, chosen by local ... Read More »
March 27, 2008
In February, the latest winner of CBC’s Canada Reads was chosen, practically guaranteeing massive sales for one lucky title (still unrevealed at Q&Q’s press time). Here Canadian Scholars’ Press president Jack Wayne writes about what ... Read More »
March 27, 2008
In one of those occasional alignments of the publishing stars, three competing biographies of the late CanLit giant Mordecai Richler are set for release within the next two years. Two of those three books have ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
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