Children's author and illustrator Barbara Reid is set to be appointed to the Order of Ontario. Reid will receive the province's highest honour for her "unparalleled" influence on children's publishing in Canada over the past ... Read More »
Rumours of Apple's entry into the digital textbook market were confirmed this morning with the announcement of iBooks 2. The latest version of Apple's e-reading platform focuses on media-rich, interactive digital textbooks designed for the ... Read More »
January 19, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
An Apple event scheduled for Jan. 19 has insiders speculating the technology giant will announce its entrance into the e-textbook market. In advance of the education-themed event, tech website betanews.com compiled a list of Apple's ... Read More »
January 17, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
Move over Gosling, we've got Mistry, Martel, and Munro. CanLit is Sexy, an anonymous blog that calls itself a "misguided response to the end of McClelland & Stewart as an independent Canadian publishing house," is ... Read More »
January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
U.S. fantasy writer Jim C. Hines is a brave man. The author recently posed as the sword-wielding heroine from his novel The Stepsister Scheme. Inspired by the result, Hines posed for several more photos modelled ... Read More »
January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Authors
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, and the town of Orillia, Ontario, which was loosely fictionalized in the satirical short story collection, is planning an old-time ... Read More »
January 16, 2012 | Filed under: Events
Fast Company has a fascinating article about the volume of plagiarized erotica on Amazon's Kindle Select self-publishing platform. According to the story, small press owner and erotica author Sharazade, suspicious of another top-selling author, Maria ... Read More »
January 13, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
In the January/February issue, Q&Q looks ahead at some of the spring season's new books. Covering Canadian fiction, non-fiction, children's books, and international titles, the highlights below are a sample of 2012 titles from rising ... Read More »
You have to give them credit for their dramatic sense of timing. Nearly two months to the day after news of Kobo's impending sale to Japanese tech giant Rakuten became a buzz topic for publishing ... Read More »
January 11, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology
Here are some key figures from Q&Q's latest story on the acquisition of McClelland & Stewart by Random House of Canada: 100% The share of McClelland & Stewart now owned by Random House of Canada ... Read More »
January 11, 2012 | Filed under: Book news
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