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Potter for a quid

Today, Guardian blogger Nicholas Clee muses on the implications of selling the Harry Potter series at bargain basement prices. This is in light of British supermarket chain Asda's decision to sell Harry Potter and the ... Read More »

July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Surprise: You’re a YA author!

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has a piece by author Margo Rabb about her discovery that her readership would not be as... mature as she had envisioned: When my agent called to tell me that my ... Read More »

July 21, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Bookmarks: Google vs. the French, why we read fiction, and bestsellers in Iran

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: French resistance to the Google Book Search project (The Independent) Novelist/neurologist Liam Durcan on why we read fiction (The Globe and Mail) Bestsellers in Iran (Mehr News) Ten things you should know ... Read More »

July 21, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Should booksellers buy books “blind?”

By Scott MacDonald

Using the new Christopher Ciccone-penned Madonna tell-all as a lead-in, Slate looks at the book-world phenomena of buying books "blind": Christopher Ciccone's new celebrity tell-all, Life With My Sister Madonna, hit store shelves on Tuesday. ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Cellist vs. Cellist

By Scott MacDonald

Seems there's a bit of controversy brewing around Steven Galloway's novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, which was published a few months back by Knopf Canada. (Read Q&Q's review here.) According to the CBC, the real-life ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Current opportunities on Q&Q’s Job Board

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Sales and Marketing Associate - Canadian Scholars' Press / Women's Press (180 Bloor Street West, Toronto) Associate Editor - Suite101.com (Vancouver-Yaletown) Production Editor - Penguin Group (Canada) (Toronto, ON) ... Read More »

July 18, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

Great moments in embargoing: buttertart edition

By Nathan Whitlock

Publishers will often embargo a book “ that is, make it unavailable to reviewers and the media, and occasionally even booksellers “ if they feel it contains information or revelations so sensitive that, were they ... Read More »

July 16, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

GG Unit

By Sara Forsyth

John Meier wants to own every English-language first edition book that has ever won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. (You may remember him from a Quillblog post back in November.) Today, Meier, 51, ... Read More »

July 15, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Stuart Little vs. The New York Public Library

By Sara Forsyth

This week's New Yorker features an article by Jill Lepore about a long and public spat between E.B White and Anne Carroll Moore, the Superintendent of Work with Children at the New York Public Library. ... Read More »

July 15, 2008 | Filed under: Authors, Libraries

Countdown to Cohen

By Nathan Whitlock

There are a few authors “ J.K. Rowling being the most obvious example “ who can create line-ups at the cash register on the day of publication. For most books, however, even ones by popular ... Read More »

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

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