I had been sitting in the Supreme Court of Canada for a full 15 minutes before the reality of the situation began to sink in. Here I was, with the owners and manager of Little ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
Chapters.ca hopes to bump up its share of the online video/DVD market after striking a deal in October with Canoe, a popular multipurpose web site. The 3.3 million web surfers who visit www.canoe.ca each month ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
Booksellers who want to sell more Canadian magazines ought to talk to Maytham Ibrahim. For one week each month, Ibrahim rolls out the maple leaf flags at his two Toronto magazine stores, displays Canadian publications ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
The most talked about story this month is one that no one wants to talk about: returns. A publisher who didn’t want to be identified called them staggering and said his company’s net sales in ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
A writers’ workshop held last summer at the University of Toronto has inspired six of the participants to create a new literary magazine being launched this month in Toronto. Pagitica is a self-funded, quarterly journal ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
A study being conducted by the Canada Council could lead to larger grants for individual artists, says an officer of the federal arts agency.During October and November, Council researchers held focus groups in 11 Canadian ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
Despite having sold more than one million copies of his YA novels here, Eric Wilson is virtually unknown south of the border. But Orca Books plans to change that. In a recent foreign rights deal that ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
Banff Public Library has become the first public library in Alberta to eliminate its membership fees, a decision made by the library’s board as a way to ring in the millennium. Previously, the $10 adult ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
By acquiring two smaller companies, a longtime electronic legal publisher has aggressively expanded into a new territory – and an old medium. The Kingston, Ontario-based QL Systems even has a new name, Quicklaw, to match ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
Iqaluit’s public library, a medium-sized facility serving the capital of Nunavut on the southern part of Baffin Island, recently acquired its first electronic reference tool, Britannica Online. The library added the service because the price ... Read More »
February 2, 2004
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