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Attention agents and editors: we want your deals!

Just a reminder to Canadian agents and editors to send us your deals for our weekly update on Q&Q Omni. We're interested in books acquired for upcoming Canadian publication as well as in sales of ... Read More »

July 9, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Frey speaks, selectively

By Leigh Anne Williams

In case anyone missed it, James Frey has spoken in-depth to a reporter – Laura Barton, writing for The Guardian – for the first time since the massive controversy over his Oprah-anointed but exaggerated "memoir," ... Read More »

September 21, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Australian publishers don't like the cut of Nobel-winner's jib

By Cassandra Drudi

Australia's only Nobel Prize-winning author must be rolling in his grave this week -- not a single major publisher or literary agent would release his stuff today, it seems. Earlier this summer, The Australian sent ... Read More »

July 18, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Paperback writer

By Scott MacDonald

One more potential sign of the downturn of literary fiction: according to a recent article in The New York Times, more and more American publishers are opting to release more and more literary fiction titles ... Read More »

March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Your name imprint

By Scott MacDonald

Addressing the double-edge of book publishing -- the glut of books published and the need for each book to be distinctive -- Julie Annan recently reported on the Telegraph website that now, more than ever, ... Read More »

February 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Opinion

Booker Prize-winning novels rejected

By Scott MacDonald

An informal investigation conducted by British newspaper The Sunday Times has an amusing and surprising result. Disguising them as manuscripts for new books, the paper sent typewritten copies of the first chapters of two novels ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Fiction's fall

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Globe and Mail has a dispatch on "the great fiction crash of 2005." Writes the Globe's Michael Posner: "Agents and retailers are complaining that sales for new fiction are soft, that orders for reprints ... Read More »

December 5, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

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