Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Foreign front: Apr. 11, 2005

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Marilyn Biderman, director of subsidiary rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart, has sold U.S. rights to Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors to Penguin imprint Riverhead. She has also sold world-Spanish ... Read More »

April 11, 2005

Broadview suffers in 2004

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Alberta-based academic publisher Broadview Press reported a net loss for 2004, dropping more than $300,000 from the previous year.Issued last week, the public company’s annual report shows that sales dropped from $3,697,141 in 2003 to ... Read More »

April 11, 2005

IBBY Canada feeling hot, hot, hot

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At first glance, children’s books and late-night salsa dancing may be strange bedfellows, but the combination makes sense for the Canadian chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People’s (IBBY) fourth biennial fundraiser ... Read More »

April 11, 2005

Public Lending Right Commission

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Effective June 8, 2005, David Schimpky has been appointed executive secretary of the Public Lending Right Commission. Schimpky was previously a program officer for the Canada Council for the Arts's writing and publishing section and ... Read More »

April 7, 2005