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Gun runners learn the value of reading

From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattle police are looking for a man who attempted to mail to Paris a box full of books packed with handgun parts and ammunition. An alert clerk at a Wallingford UPS ... Read More »

February 8, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

The latest on Q&Q’s Job Board

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Manager, Special Sales and Rights - Robert Rose Inc. (Downtown Toronto) Permission Liaison - Access Copyright (Toronto, ON) Affiliate Liaison - Access Copyright (Toronto, ON) Commissioning Editor - Penguin ... Read More »

February 6, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

High school student expelled for short story

By Nathan Whitlock

From The Globe and Mail: A 17-year-old student has been expelled from his Brampton, Ont., high school for a fictional essay he submitted in a creative writing class about a disgruntled student who murders one ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Canadian Heritage’s state of the (bookselling) nation

By Nathan Whitlock

Last year, the Department of Canadian Heritage commisioned a report entitled The Book Retail Sector in Canada, which was releases late last month. (You can read the whole report here.) Its key findings probably won't ... Read More »

February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Suicide is painful

By Scott MacDonald

How-to books on the subject of suicide don't seem to be welcome in New Zealand. The Australian author and assisted-suicide advocate Philip Nitschke was detained by authorities in a New Zealand airport earlier this week, ... Read More »

February 1, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Robert Weaver remembered

By Scott MacDonald

An industry tribute to the late Robert Weaver, who died last Saturday at the age of 87, was held in Toronto's Massey College last night (see photo below). Though it was a small, closed gathering, ... Read More »

January 31, 2008 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

Judith Regan settles with former bosses

By Nathan Whitlock

Judith Regan may be sleazy, but she's not that sleazy, at least according to Regan's former bosses at News Corporation, the owners of HarperCollins U.S., where Regan had her own imprint. According to Yahoo! News, ... Read More »

January 28, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Looking for a new challenge?

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: National Accounts Manager - Mass Market Special Sales - Scholastic Canada (Downtown Toronto, ON) Marketing and Promotions Coordinator - Between The Lines (Toronto, ON) Sales Representative, Prairie Provinces and ... Read More »

January 23, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Battle of the Bonds

By Nathan Whitlock

From MI6.com (which, we assume, is your one-stop shop for all things James Bond): James Bond legends Sean Connery and Roger Moore will go head to head with rival books this autumn, after Weidenfeld cajoled ... Read More »

January 21, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Saving Vladimir Nabokov

By Scott MacDonald

A literary ethical dilemma involving the unpublished writings of Vladimir Nabokov is discussed at length by journalist Ron Rosenbaum over at Slate. It seems that Nabokov's sole remaining unpublished work “ a manuscript titled The ... Read More »

January 18, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

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