Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

B.C. ferries dispute continues

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B.C. publishers are continuing to fight B.C. Ferries’ recent decision to award its book supply contract to the News Group. The B.C. Publishers’ Association sent a letter in mid-April to the ferry service calling for ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Newspaper ad draws support

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Booksellers and publishers have sent more than 100 messages of support to Titles, the small Saskatoon bookstore that took a public swipe at Chapters in a recent advertisement placed in the Globe and Mail. The ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

For the week of Jan. 4, 2004

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Hardcover fiction1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Doubleday, $37.95, 0-385-50420-9) 2. The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald (Knopf Canada, $37.95, 0-676-97408-2)3. New Spring: The Novel, Robert Jordan (TOR Books/H.B. Fenn, $32.95, 0-7653-0629-8)4. The Five People You ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Big Bear’s legacy

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Yvonne Johnson believes that the spirit of her great-great-grandfather, the Plains Cree chief Big Bear, brought her and novelist Rudy Wiebe together. Without Big Bear, the two would never have become friends, and Stolen Life: ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Key Porter loses editor-in-chief

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Key Porter Books may rethink its organizational structure in the wake of editor-in-chief Clare McKeon’s departure.McKeon, who has been with the company for several years, left for personal reasons in December. However, she will continue ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Big names dominate Bologna

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If there was a visible trend at this year’s Bologna Book Fair, it may have been the growing corporatization of children’s books. Disney characters, Dorling Kindersley titles and their knockoffs, and other licenced products had ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

The vanishing bookmobile

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A library institution took another step closer to extinction late last year as a 50-year-old Nova Scotia bookmobile service was discontinued.Citing rising repair costs and decreasing circulation, Nova Scotia’s Colchester East Hants Regional Library has ... Read More »

February 25, 2004