Now that the crisis over parity and pricing has eased somewhat “ at least for the moment “ we can again turn our attention to a more pressing issue in books: how can we get ... Read More »
February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling
Brendan Jones, the Ontario high school student who was threatened with expulsion after writing a violent-themed story as part of a test, has posted a comment on the original Quillblog post about this story to ... Read More »
February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news
Some book-related links: New James Bond novel gets Russian publisher (MI6) New Thunderbirds novels after more than forty years (SWFA Pressbook) Salman Rushdie vows to stop creating autobiographical characters (The Canadian Press) Mold: the enemy ... Read More »
February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
In literary circles, there is probably no author more loathed than the U.S. thriller writer James Patterson, who freely admits to writing his books “ which he pumps out at a rate of eight or ... Read More »
February 8, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries
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
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
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
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
Some book-related links: "Free Radicals," a new short story by Alice Munro (The New Yorker) Robert Fisk's bio of Saddam Hussein is selling well “ except he didn't write it (The Independent) Why does it ... Read More »
February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
According to Entertainment Weekly, Charlie's Angels director McG has created three teaser spots for a kinda trashy-looking book called Celebutante. [...] it's a Hollywood satire [...] by Amanda Goldberg (daughter of film producer Leonard Goldberg) ... Read More »
February 1, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
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