Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Harlequin’s low sales hamper Torstar

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Torstar chairman Robert Prichard’s assessment of Harlequin’s performance in the third quarter was bleak, but, based on results released Wednesday, fair: “We sold fewer books in all of our channels which reduced revenues and profits,” ... Read More »

October 28, 2004

Abebooks continues Latin invasion

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Abebooks has expanded its empire to include Spain with the acquisition of iberlibro.com, the largest Spanish-language website for buying used and antiquarian books. The Victoria-based company has also struck up a partnership with Spanish book ... Read More »

October 28, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Schooner scholarship

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Lunenburg-based authors Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle have signed a deal with publisher Patrick Crean of Thomas Allen Publishers for The Bluenose. The book will use newly discovered archival material and interviews with the ... Read More »

October 27, 2004

Author, MD

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Doubleday Canada publisher Maya Mavjee has signed a two-book deal with first-time author and Toronto physician Vincent Lam. The first title, to be published in 2006, is a book of short stories about medical students ... Read More »

October 27, 2004

Days of change

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Historian Christopher Moore, co-author of The Story of Canada, has signed a deal with Knopf Canada executive publisher Louise Dennys for a new work of social history. 1885: Canada at the Crossroads follows Louis Riel ... Read More »

October 27, 2004