Sundry links from around the Web: Robert Fulford on the "long service in the trench warfare of editing" of Oxford University Press's William Toye The Association of American Publishers reports a staggering 116 per cent ... Read More »
McClelland & Stewart today announced the formation of a new hockey-themed imprint to be helmed by Jordan Fenn, the publisher of Fenn Publishing and Key Porter Books. Effective immediately, Fenn joins M&S as publisher of ... Read More »
March 9, 2011 | Filed under: Industry news
It's been a dismal 24 hours for global bricks-and-mortar booksellers. A day after U.S. chain Borders entered bankruptcy protection, Australia's largest bookstore chain, Angus & Roberts, entered administration, putting in question the future of its ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Anna Porter, the c0-founder of Key Porter Books, has won the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Ghosts of Europe (Douglas & McIntyre), her work of reportage about post-Communist central Europe. She ... Read More »
February 17, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Borders has succumbed to the inevitable. After failing to make publisher payments since late last year, the U.S. retail chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will close 200 stores “ or 30% ... Read More »
February 16, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The regional shortlists for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize have been announced, and Canadian books have swept this year's nominations for best book and best first book for the Canadian and Caribbean region. The Canadian ... Read More »
February 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
[UPDATE: Read Q&Q's updated coverage of H.B. Fenn's restructuring here.] H.B. Fenn and Company, Canada's largest book distributor and owner of Key Porter Books, has initiated bankruptcy proceedings. According to a press release sent out ... Read More »
February 3, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
The "Great Chinese Canadian Literary Feud" is now underway, according to a Toronto Star story by Bill Schiller. The author at the centre of the supposed controversy is Toronto's Zhang Ling, whose previous novel, Aftershock, ... Read More »
February 1, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
John Vaillant's harrowing true-life tale of a series of tiger attacks in eastern Siberia has won the country's richest non-fiction prize. Vaillant was awarded the $40,000 B.C. National Award for Non-fiction this afternoon in Vancouver. ... Read More »
January 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
Sundry links from around the Web: National Book Critics Circle announces finalists. Franzen, Anne Carson make the cut Kate Pullinger's The Mistress of Nothing reviewed in The New York Times. The verdict? Meh David Staines, ... Read More »
January 24, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
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