Sackville, New Brunswick, has found its bard in Douglas Lochhead, author of some 25 books of poetry, who was named the town’s first ever poet laureate as part of its 2003 centenary. To commemorate the ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
Amber Rider bought the Vancouver Island bookstore the Cadboro Bay Book Company early last year. An Edmonton native, she came to the gig with background in both bookselling and publishing, having worked at Greenwoods’ Bookshoppe ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
I doubt very much that many people reading this believe the only real measure of a book’s success or quality is the number of copies it sells. Art has a life and meaning outside the ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
The InstaBook, a print-on-demand machine that had a handful of trial runs in Canadian bookstores over the past few years, is now officially defunct – in Canada, at least. Though the U.S.-owned InstaBook remains in ... Read More »
March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Access Copyright is tweaking several of its processes in response to a report that criticizes the way it distributes funds to authors and publishers. The Canadian agency, which collects fees for photocopying and distributes payments ... Read More »
March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Margaret Atwood’s LongPen has a new retail partner in the U.S. A Borders outlet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has installed one of the LongPen machines for a four-month pilot project. The Borders LongPen was officially ... Read More »
March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Events
While many in the book industry may consider digital delivery and e-books to be the Holy Grail, there’s still life in another tech-based business model: the public print-on-demand machine. And a Canadian college bookstore is ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
This week’s list covers the top sports & recreation titles for the two weeks ending Feb. 17, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. 1. McCown’s Law: The 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments, Bob McCown ... Read More »
March 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Josephine Bryant, who has held the Toronto Public Library’s chief librarian position for a decade, will be stepping down this year. Bryant, 60, is taking early retirement and will leave in July. According to the ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
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