Q&Q Omni Category: Scholarly and college publishing
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Scaling back: How Broadview Press took drastic steps – and lost its president – to stay on track financially
“I was very much enjoying not running a publishing company,” says Don LePan, a little wistfully. The Broadview Press founder and president, 54,... Read the rest »
E-books go to college: A group of U.S. publishers has put together another big digital push – and they're eyeing Canada
Electronic textbooks may soon get a big boost in Canada. A U.S.-based online marketplace for digital college textbooks is setting its sights on Canadian students,... Read the rest »
University libraries make Canadian digital connection
Canadian e-publishing recently got another boost with a new multimillion-dollar deal between a content provider and a consortium of Canadian universities. Since 2005,... Read the rest »
The ABCs of Alphabet City: A unique scholarly press’s quest for financial viability
John Knechtel, the principal behind Toronto’s Alphabet City Media, is admirably stoic about the white elephant that nearly stamped out his firm’s finances.... Read the rest »
Giving it away: A new scholarly press in Alberta is going Open Access, but others are skeptical
Canada’s scholarly presses are keeping a close eye on a new project at Athabasca University, the online and distance-education school based in the town of... Read the rest »
Finding the sweet spot: How is Emond Montgomery expanding into university textbooks? Very carefully
Canada’s post-secondary textbook market has a new player. Emond Montgomery, best known as a publisher of law texts, is preparing to branch out into more... Read the rest »
The classroom clicker revolution: Textbook publishers sign on to the latest tech fad
A new piece of handheld technology is taking university classrooms by storm. The devices go by many names – the iClicker, the CPS Transmitter, the... Read the rest »
The off-campus campus bookstore: For some trade booksellers, academic sales have become big business
The textbook trade may be embattled, but the academic market is still proving to be a valuable sideline for some off-campus trade bookstores. Indeed, for... Read the rest »
Show me the money: Want to write a scholarly book? You may be asked to help make the numbers work
When University of Alberta Press director Linda Cameron decided to publish an ambitious two-volume history of Alberta for the province’s 2005 centenary, she knew she’d... Read the rest »
The scholar's dilemma: The lure of writing for the public – and the career pitfalls
As non-fiction continues to boom in popularity, more academics seem to be writing for large, general audiences. Margaret MacMillan, a history professor at the University... Read the rest »
The horse was tired: How to write history without falsifying it
This issue of Q&Q has a review of Mark Zuehlke’s For Honour’s Sake, about the War of 1812 (see review, page 30). Reviewer Michael Clark... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Jack Wayne
Jack Wayne, the new president of the Association of Canadian Publishers and the owner of Canadian Scholars’ Press, began as a Jack of many trades... Read the rest »
ASPP gets budget boost: More scholarly books to be funded, and more money given to each
After a protracted review process that began almost two years ago, the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP) is finally getting a much-needed overhaul and... Read the rest »
The campus bookstore crunch: Rising prices + online competition = falling sales
A decade ago, the university and college textbook market was a straightforward one. Each semester, students faithfully trudged over to their campus bookstore, list of... Read the rest »
World ambitions: Nova Scotia’s art college revives its in-house press
Canada regained its sole university press devoted to the visual arts with the recent revival of the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art... Read the rest »
McGraw-Hill just says no to ads: Controversial plan to sell space in textbooks quickly dropped
With a resounding slam, a Canadian educational publisher has closed the door on the idea of selling advertising space in its textbooks. McGraw-Hill Ryerson says... Read the rest »
SFU launches new press for books on books
A Canadian university is preparing to launch a new in-house press that will focus on books about a highly specialized field: publishing. Simon... Read the rest »
At home in the future
University of Western Ontario information and media studies professor Tim Blackmore had pretty much hit the end of the line in his search for a... Read the rest »
Snapshot: Susan McIntosh
After stints as a bookseller in Toronto and Montreal, where she attended McGill University, Susan McIntosh got her first publishing job as the Ontario sales... Read the rest »
Battle of the campus bookstores: Follett adds more Canadian outlets, while smaller booksellers dig in for a fight
In August, after entertaining offers from several candidates, Chapters/Indigo quietly sold the management contracts for its four college bookstores to chief competitor Follett of Canada,... Read the rest »
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