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Pages gets new lease on life

Last fall, Q&Q Omni reported that after 30 years at its current Queen Street West location, Toronto's Pages Books & Magazines was slated to move “ or shut down “ when the store's lease expires ... Read More »

January 14, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

NY publishers’ descent from the high life

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

In the New York Times, Motoko Rich looks at the dying glitz and glam of the publishing world, which, according to Rich, once "came with a milieu that mixed cultural swagger with pure Manhattan high ... Read More »

January 6, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Q&Q‘s Books of the Year – LIVE!

By Nathan Whitlock

As part of the global celebrations marking the release of Q&Q's annual "Books of the Year" issue, the World's Biggest Bookstore in downtown Toronto has put together a display in its honour: The display. Not-at-all-suspicious-looking ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Events

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

By Stuart Woods

Margaret Atwood talks to Salon about her well-timed meditation on debt, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Are Canadian authors' festivals the greatest? More gripes about those nasty chain bookstores Reed Elsevier beginning ... Read More »

October 29, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

By Stuart Woods

In business, it always pays to know your competition. But does Indigo CEO Heather Reisman see Toronto mini-chain Type Books as competition? From Toronto Life: One summer Sunday afternoon, Type's Danforth digs received an auspicious ... Read More »

September 26, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Too many prizes, book club picks, and more

By Danielle Ng-See-Quan

Are there too many literary prizes? Richard Whitehead at the Times weighs the Booker against the rest. According to Indigo Books & Music, "Book Clubs are the New Dinner Party." Indigo has released a list ... Read More »

September 23, 2008 | Filed under: Book news

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

By Stuart Woods

Editor and author John Warner has a lengthy post on Maud Newton's blog about the non-success of his fledgling publishing enterprise, TOW Books, a humour imprint that was supposed to make him the Judd Apatow ... Read More »

September 10, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news, Opinion

Another one bites the dust

By Steven W. Beattie

After 13 years in business, the last seven of which were spent at its current location on Maiden Lane in downtown Windsor, Works on Paper bookstore is shutting its doors for good. In an interview ... Read More »

September 8, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Twelve must-haves for booksellers

By Sara Forsyth

Market research firm Nielsen just released a list of the top 12 books that booksellers "cannot afford not to stock." The U.K.'s Telegraph notes that the works of Jane Austen, The Lord of the Rings ... Read More »

August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Russians conflicted over Solzhenitsyn's legacy (The New York Times) Apparently, Kafka liked the hot stuff (Times Online) Salman Rushdie threatens to sue over bodyguard's memoir (CNN.com) Stephenie Meyer's newest breaks sales records ... Read More »

August 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book links

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Search Results by tag: bookselling

Pages gets new lease on life

NY publishers’ descent from the high life

Q&Q‘s Books of the Year – LIVE!

Bookmarks: More on IFOA, Payback, and the limitations of big-box bookstores

Heather Reisman a fan of Type Books “ or is she?

Too many prizes, book club picks, and more

Dying is easy, launching a small press is hard

Another one bites the dust

Twelve must-haves for booksellers

Bookmarks: Solzhenitsyn, Kafka, Rushdie, Meyer, and more

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