Books, like chocolate, do not mix well with water. This is a lesson Diane Walker, owner of Leishman's Books, learned last week when her roof caved in and unleashed buckets of water on her bookshelves ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
In the largest decision of its kind in Canadian history, Madame Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson of the Federal Court of Canada has awarded Access Copyright $259,500 in statutory damages in its case against Apex Copy Centre ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
Dating back to the 1880s, the brick structure backing onto the waterfront in the grimy and Dickensian downtown of industrial Saint John, New Brunswick, once housed an importer of products – including peanuts, filberts, and ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
Three months before the launch of Montreal: World Book Capital 2005 – a yearlong, UNESCO-initiated celebration of books – the planning committee was just hiring its publicity person, and the lineup of events was sketchy ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
The classic fantasy of aspiring authors has always been that, one day, their brilliant manuscripts will be unearthed from the stack of unsolicited submissions on a publisher’s desk to become the next big thing. The ... Read More »
A couple of months after Craig Pyette was promoted from publishing co-ordinator to associate editor of Random House Canada, he acquired his first book. Enter the Babylon System, a cultural history of the gun from ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
When Paul Cavanagh entered the inaugural Lit Idol competition, an American Idol-type showdown between aspiring writers at the London Book Fair last March (the competition will be reprised again this year), he had no intention ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
As Easter rolls around and the spring season kicks into high gear, Andrea Crozier of Penguin Canada will be hoping that she can raise some of her company’s backlist from the dead. If not from ... Read More »
March 21, 2005
Camilla Gibb is a great interview subject: effortlessly articulate, she can give concise and thoughtful answers to even the most clumsy and nebulous of questions. Warm and relaxed to boot, she has a casual sensesweetness-and-darkness/> ... Read More »
March 18, 2005
This spring Vancouver will provide a northern backdrop for the Virginia-based Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ annual conference, as part of a mutual effort to strengthen literary ties on both sides of the 49th ... Read More »
March 18, 2005
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