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Finance minister makes a pricing example of Harry Potter

The publishing industry is once again the unhappy poster child for the difference between U.S. and Canadian retail prices, but this time the complaint is coming not from consumers or booksellers but from federal Finance ... Read More »

October 24, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

By Stuart Woods

Not content to be sidelined by the literary establishment any longer, Amazon announced on Monday that it is teaming up with Penguin Group to launch a new prize for unpublished novelists. Appropriately, the "jury" is ... Read More »

October 2, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Mulroney and O.J.: Bad company

By Nathan Whitlock

Wondering just who is buying O.J. Simpson's controversial book If I Did It, now being published by the Goldman family? There was a clue to be found on Amazon.ca today. The website noted that "Customers ... Read More »

September 19, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

New in the print Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

Coming soon to a newsstand or mailbox near you is the October 2007 issue of Quill & Quire. Our cover story is a profile of Cape Breton writer D.R. MacDonald. The issue also looks at ... Read More »

September 13, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Gadget watch

By Q&Q Staff

At a Friday seminar, Kris Abel, CTV's resident tech expert, looked at some of the electronic-reading platforms currently on the market and forthcoming. He pointed to: Manybooks.net, which offers e-books in almost any format for ... Read More »

June 9, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Amazon recommends and offends

By Alison Jones

Margaret Atwood finds items that are "quite offensive" when she browses online, at least on Amazon.com. According to an article from The Times, Atwood spoke out against online book browsing at the London Book Fair ... Read More »

April 24, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Battle of the bestselling wizards

By Nathan Whitlock

Harry Potter may be approaching his grand finale but he may still have something to learn from an older master of magic. According to The Guardian: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has, for the ... Read More »

April 18, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The other day a finished copy of Rebecca Eckler's new memoir, Wiped, arrived here at the Q&Q home office, complete with a press release that included some admiring blurbs of Eckler's first book, Knocked Up. ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Let's talk Fifth Business

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the U.S., Amazon.com has teamed up with Penguin to promote the Penguin Classics line via an online reading group. And the very first selection? None other than Robertson Davies' CanLit classic Fifth Business. Kathryn ... Read More »

September 28, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Reports of Chomsky's demise greatly exaggerated

By Nathan Whitlock

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez not only stirred things up this week with his address to the U.N., in which he referred to President George W. Bush as the devil, he also started an incorrect rumour ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Amazon

Finance minister makes a pricing example of Harry Potter

Amazon and Penguin want your unpublished novel

Mulroney and O.J.: Bad company

New in the print Q&Q

Gadget watch

Amazon recommends and offends

Battle of the bestselling wizards

Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

Let's talk Fifth Business

Reports of Chomsky's demise greatly exaggerated

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