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Hello, Newman *

Peter C. Newman has had a long and storied career, but he continues to rack up new achievements. His latest? Getting Robert Fulford and Conrad Black on Jean Chretien's side. It all stems from Newman's ... Read More »

November 8, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Dealing with the loonie surge, continued

By Leigh Anne Williams

As the pricing crisis keeps reverberating throughout the book industry, more booksellers are unilaterally lowering their prices. In Waterloo, Ontario, Words Worth Books is now offering a 15% discount on all dual-priced books. According to ... Read More »

November 8, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Beau travail

By Q&Q jobs

This week on Q&Q's Job Board: Administrative Assistant - Emond Montgomery Publications (Toronto, ON (Yonge & Summerhill)) Print Promotions and Publicity Coordinator - Scholastic Canada (Markham, ON) Book Marketing Coordinator - James Lorimer & Co. ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

New event photos: Quattro Books fall launch

By Leigh Anne Williams

New publisher Quattro Books held its fall launch at the Heliconian Club in Toronto on Oct. 24. Above, Gale Zoë ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

New event photos: Ian Rankin, the Sleuth's anniversary, and McArthur's Harbourfront party

By Leigh Anne Williams

Above: McArthur & Company publisher Kim McArthur kicks back with Toronto Mayor David Miller and IFOA director Geoffrey Taylor at a party for Ian Rankin in Toronto in mid-October. After the jump: more Ian Rankin, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Yann Martel's new book courts controversy

By Stuart Woods

Yann Martel, currently on tour in the U.S. to promote the illustrated edition of Life of Pi, shared details about his new book, A 20th-Century Shirt, which he says should be due in fall 2008. ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Death of God good for books, bad for Hollywood

By Stuart Woods

New York magazine's culture blog points out how Phillip Pullman is distancing himself from his image as a God-despising, atheism-peddling iconoclast in the run-up to the release of Hollywood's mega-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Giller speculation

By Stuart Woods

It's safe to say that last year's Giller Prize-winner, Vincent Lam's Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, caught some pundits off-guard. (Ahem.) This year, the peanut gallery has kept curiously mum on who will take home the ... Read More »

November 6, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Heard & Overheard: BookFest Windsor 2007 edition

By Leigh Anne Williams

Windsor, Ontario, held its sixth BookFest from Nov. 2-4, bringing together more than 40 authors and speakers, including Lawrence Hill, the University of Windsor's own Alistair MacLeod, Emma Donoghue, Gil Adamson, and more (including this ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Charles Taylor Foundation gives books to America

By Q&Q Staff

The Charles Taylor Prize for the Literay Non-Fiction has donated almost 100 books to Canada's embassy in Washington D.C. The gift was presented at the IFOA in Toronto. Photos courtesy of the Charles Taylor Foundation. ... Read More »

November 5, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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