Call it the sincerest form of flattery – or a sign that the gene pool of new ideas in publishing is dangerously small. With its new fall catalogue, Stoddart has tweaked some design elements, and ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
East bowed to west when Toronto Life magazine held its yearly summer-fiction-issue shindig at Toronto’s Bistro 990 club in late July. All four authors featured in the issue – Annabel Lyon, Nancy Lee, Kevin Patterson, ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
There’s no getting around it: the printed word still occupies centre stage in the publishing industry – for now at least. But the publishing industry has migrated to the Net. And nowhere was that more ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
It’s like déjà vu,” muses Bruno Monti, settling into a chair in his spartan corner office. He’s in a low-slung suburban industrial building that once housed the head office of Coles and then Chapters, but ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Jane Somerville has until the end of June to come up with a proposal to allow her indebted company to continue operating and avoid bankruptcy. In late May, the children’s book packager filed a Notice of ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
Copyright began with the printed book and has evolved over the centuries to provide incremental protections for creators and content providers. But just as the arrival of the printing press triggered the need for copyright, ... Read More »
January 30, 2004
The Government of Canada recently announced a process for reforming the Copyright Act. As a first step, it issued a Consultation Paper on Digital Copyright Issues (available at www.canadianheritage.gc.ca) and invited responses from interested parties ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Is it another example of the brain drain? Dr. Temperance Brennan, the star of Kathy Reichs’ bestselling mystery series, has taken her forensic crime-solving expertise south of the border. In Fatal Voyage, the new and ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Gerri Cook’s quest to chronicle the adventures of a Rip Van Winkle-ish dinosaur awkwardly adrift in modern Alberta has been a long-running one. The veteran television writer-producer hatched the idea 15 years ago, but her ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
For years, Diane Waldock had been after Nicholas Pashley to write a book for her. “He’s witty and insightful – a wonderful raconteur,” says Waldock. With Notes on a Beermat: Drinking and Why It’s Necessary, ... Read More »
January 30, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
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