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B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award goes to Lane

The West Coast Book Prize Society has awarded Patrick Lane the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, which recognizes an author with a substantial body of literary work who has contributed to the development of ... Read More »

April 23, 2007

McNally Robinson to open new stores in Toronto and Winnipeg

By Q&Q Staff

The McNally Robinson bookstore mini-chain is quickly outgrowing its “mini” status – it will open two new large-format stores in Winnipeg and Toronto in 2008. The company is making its first foray into Ontario, planning ... Read More »

April 23, 2007

Canadian poets: ich bin ein Berliner

By Q&Q Staff

Canada is the featured country at an annual poetry festival in Berlin in June. The festival is the largest of its kind in Europe and attracts about 10,000 people over its eight-day run. Ken Babstock, ... Read More »

April 23, 2007

B.C. publishers join forces to go digital

By Q&Q Staff

A group of B.C. publishers have banded together to build a new package of digital non-fiction titles that they hope to sell to libraries throughout the province and across the country. Dubbed the Best of ... Read More »

April 23, 2007

BookNet Canada bestsellers: house and home

By Q&Q Staff

With spring cleaning no doubt underway in many homes, this week’s list covers the top titles in the house and home category for the two weeks ending April 15, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC ... Read More »

April 23, 2007

Thinking like publishers

By Q&Q Staff

It might seem odd to hear Kevin Hanson, president of Simon & Schuster Canada, proudly declare, “We’re thinking like publishers.” Simon & Schuster Canada is, after all, the Canadian arm of one of the largest ... Read More »

April 21, 2007

Editing pictures

By Q&Q Staff

Everyone wants a piece of the expanding graphic novel market. In the U.S., Random House has published several such books under its Pantheon imprint, and Houghton Mifflin recently produced, as its first graphic title, Alison ... Read More »

April 21, 2007

Franchise gone, name lives on

By Q&Q Staff

Page & Turners franchisees, left to fend for themselves by the mini-chain’s founder Max Maccari, have created an informal support group to help each other deal with the challenges they now face as independent booksellers. ... Read More »

April 21, 2007

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

By Q&Q Staff

Noah Richler won the $25,000 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction for his book This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada (McClelland & Stewart). (Photos by Dave Roels.) B.C. Premier ... Read More »

April 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Events

Librarians awarded Friendship Feathers

By Q&Q Staff

The Friends of Ontario’s First Nation Public Libraries has awarded librarian (and Q&Q reviewer) Patty Lawlor, a Friendship Feather, which recognizes work in support of public libraries in First Nation communities. Lawlor, has worked in ... Read More »

April 19, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award goes to Lane

McNally Robinson to open new stores in Toronto and Winnipeg

Canadian poets: ich bin ein Berliner

B.C. publishers join forces to go digital

BookNet Canada bestsellers: house and home

Thinking like publishers

Editing pictures

Franchise gone, name lives on

British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction

Librarians awarded Friendship Feathers

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