by Leigh Anne Williams

Dealing with the loonie surge, continued

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

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

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

Have your say re: parity

By Leigh Anne Williams

Like many booksellers, Chris O'Brien, owner of The Miller's Tale in Almonte, Ontario, has been wrestling with the issue of dollar-parity. As O'Brien explains on his store blog, this is the approach he's come up ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Some hard looks at Plimpton

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's been two and a half years since journalist and author Philip Gourevitch took over as editor of The Paris Review, and now The New York Observer's Doree Shafrir sits down with Gourevitch in the ... Read More »

November 1, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Have your say: guess the Giller winner

By Leigh Anne Williams

It's participation time. With the Scotiabank Giller Prize coming up in less than a week, we'd like to ask our readers (a) which book should win the prize, (b) which one will win, and what ... Read More »

October 31, 2007 | Filed under: Awards

Inside the November Q&Q

By Leigh Anne Williams

The November 2007 issue of Quill & Quire is now in stores coast to coast. Inside is a profile of mystery novelist Louise Penny, complemented by closeups of 10 other Canadian mystery writers. Other features ... Read More »

October 29, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Meet David Chariandy

By Leigh Anne Williams

David Chariandy has pulled off an impressive trick with his novel Soucouyant. The little-known Vancouver author's debut novel, published by Arsenal Pulp Press, was both longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the ... Read More »

October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Amazon is no (Bibli)oasis

By Leigh Anne Williams

Biblioasis owner Dan Wells has taken on Amazon.ca on his blog, explaining in some detail the frustrations a small publisher faces in trying to deal with the online retailer. Their bureaucracy makes Indigo's seem positively ... Read More »

October 25, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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