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It's Griffin week in the media

Griffin glory is the subject of media coverage this week, with the winners of the annual poetry prize set to be named on Thursday.Globe and Mail reporter Rebecca Caldwell interviewed this year's jury on the ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Combatting declining unit sales with higher prices?

By Leigh Anne Williams

The used-book trade draws much of the blame for declining book sales, which were highlighted in a Book Industry Study Group report released last week. According to the report, sales of new American books came ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Singing the praises of The Pornographer's Poem

By Leigh Anne Williams

It didn't exactly set Canada on fire back in 1999, but Michael Turner's novel The Pornographer's Poem is getting a new lease on life in the U.S. The book was originally published by Doubleday Canada; ... Read More »

May 17, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Sweeping up broken Glass

By Leigh Anne Williams

Aida Edemariam was a fact-checker at Harper's magazine in the spring of 1998 when it came out that journalist Stephen Glass had a habit of making up his stories. Glass worked at The New Republic, ... Read More »

May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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