For two weeks in July, the ads were ubiquitous in the Toronto area: on billboards, on transit posters, and in newspapers. Designed to tease, the campaign offered only a mysterious tagline and a date. But ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
With the fall season imminent, Canada’s newest wholesaler is on the verge of officially opening for business. Pegasus Wholesale president Dennis Zook says he’s already established accounts with a handful of publishers, is close to ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
The long wait for regulations governing the parallel importation of books under the revised Copyright Act is almost over, and representatives of both sides of the negotiating table say they’re satisfied with the results – ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Embattled Vancouver mini-chain Duthie Books, which filed for bankruptcy protection in late May, has announced it will close all but one of its remaining stores in a bid to appease creditors.President Celia Duthie told Q&Q ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Remember when e-mail used to be an intoxicating pleasure? Now it appears that every publisher in the land has discovered the e-mail publicity update: McClelland & Stewart has Mercury, Random House Canada its E-lert, CDG ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Canadians probably aren’t any more enlightened in the 21st century than they were in the 20th, but non-fiction lists for the fall suggest a season filled with individual and collective soul-searching. While John Ralston Saul ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Events
In 1996 a very close friend died of AIDS-related complications. For years he had encouraged me to leave a career in social services and, as he saw it, develop my gifts in arts and cultural ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
This month’s cover story asks whether the current system of grants for writers in Canada is working as well as it should. Let me make it clear that it is not questioning the notion of ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Doubleday Canada has a new trade paper imprint to call its own. Anchor Canada, to be overseen by Doubleday publisher Maya Mavjee, will launch its first list this fall, highlighted by the paperback reprint of ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Nikolas Dixon Kostyan was so riled up after touring the Avro Arrow exhibit at Ottawa’s National Aviation Museum, he created a mini-dartboard in his bedroom using a picture of former prime minister John Diefenbaker. But ... Read More »
February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Awards, Book news, Opinion
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