Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Finding the sweet spot

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Canada’s post-secondary textbook market has a new player. Emond Montgomery, best known as a publisher of law texts, is preparing to branch out into more general university titles. The Toronto firm’s bread and butter has ... Read More »

January 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Giving it away

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Canada’s scholarly presses are keeping a close eye on a new project at Athabasca University, the online and distance-education school based in the town of Athabaska, north of Edmonton. The school, which serves 32,000 students ... Read More »

January 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Snapshot: Sally Harding

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Sally Harding left the book world Down Under – where she had worked as an editor for Britannica while doing a Master’s of Publishing program at RMIT University in Melbourne – to move to Vancouver ... Read More »

January 6, 2008

Canada Council for the Arts

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Nicole Doucet has been appointed director of arts disciplines, effective Feb. 11, 2008. She will oversee the Council’s grants programs across several disciplines, including writing and publishing. (Melanie Rutledge, head of the writing and publishing ... Read More »

January 4, 2008

Fulcrum Publishing

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Effective Jan. 1, Codasat Canada is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Fulcrum Publishing (ISBN prefixes 978-1-55591, 978-0-9725776, and 978-1-933108). Sales ... Read More »

December 19, 2007