May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
It’s an open secret in cookbook publishing. Some cookbooks are filled with recipes so fail-safe that even a novice can turn out a flawless three-course dinner. Others – often bestsellers by famous chefs – include ... Read More »
May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
The rapids of Slave River near Fort Smith, a small community in the Northwest Territories, provide some of the best kayaking in the world and attract tourists every summer. In the early years of thesilence-of-the-north/> ... Read More »
May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
January’s Vanity Fair had a piece by Maureen Orth chronicling the woes of Conrad Black, who, as I write this, is about to go on trial in Chicago. Black has hired the high-profile Toronto lawyer ... Read More »
May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
Here are the Canadian authors in the list of winners of the most recent U.S.-based Independent Publisher Book Awards:Short Story Fiction Gold: The Hour of Bad Decisions by Russell Wangersky (Coteau Books)Anthologies Gold: Reading Writers ... Read More »
May 25, 2007
This year's National Business Book Award, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers and BMO Financial Group, went to Thomas Homer-Dixon's The Upside of Down at a ceremony in Toronto on May 14. (Photos courtesy of National Business Book ... Read More »
May 25, 2007 | Filed under: Events
Effective Aug. 1, 2007, Karen Stacey will represent Codasat Canada and Hargreaves Fuller & Paton in Quebec in her new Montreal-based independent sales agency. Stacey began working in the book industry in 1978 with Nicholas ... Read More »
May 25, 2007
Tom Elrick, 72, a veteran educational sales rep who had worked in the Toronto area and the Maritimes, died on May 15 of cancer.The former teacher became a sales manager at The Book Society (which ... Read More »
May 24, 2007 | Filed under: Book news
As reported on Q&Q’s blog on Tuesday, the Canadian-owned Thomson Learning – parent company to the educational publisher Thomson Nelson – has been purchased, ending a nearly year-long search for a buyer. The new owners ... Read More »
May 24, 2007
Canadian publishing has bid farewell to retired publisher and Longman Canada executive Jack Riede, who died on April 20 at the age of 91. Riede had a long career in publishing that began in his ... Read More »
May 24, 2007
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