Max Lenderman really likes good marketing campaigns – he even gets a tad wistful when describing innovations like Camp Jeep, a retreat at which Jeep owners get to try out new gadgets and drive through ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
One of the most visible changes to the computer book landscape this year has been the appearance of a slew of candy-coloured tomes dedicated to that hip new gadget, the iPod. Yet publishers say these ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
The fall book season is just around the corner. Authors with books about to come out are starting to think about publicity – and none too soon. In today’s fiercely competitive book market, without good ... Read More »
August 10, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
If there’s a recurring theme in this issue’s Special Report on Atlantic Canada (which begins on page 16), it’s the tricky balance between regional identity and other interests. Publishers like Nimbus Publishing and Flanker Press ... Read More »
August 10, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Ann Vos has lived in Canada for most of her life. She left her native Holland a few years after the end of the Second World War. In recent years she has taught nursery school ... Read More »
It’s located on one of the busiest streets in Halifax, Quinpool Road in the west end. But Outside the Lines, one of the city’s newest bookstores, is decidedly off the beaten path – most Halifax ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
Heart’s Desire, Heart’s Content, Heart’s Delight, Little Heart’s Ease. There’s a cupidal spin, it would seem, to a few Newfoundland place names. And so it is perhaps not surprising that the province’s latest book publishing ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
It’s been more than a year since Indigo switched its buying system, routing regional orders through the central office, and some publishers are still adjusting. Especially Atlantic Canada publishers, since many of their lists are ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
Garry Cranford created Flanker Press out of frustration. He’d shopped around his own manuscript about the Newfoundland schooner Norma & Gladys, but no one offered a publishing contract, so he decided to self-publish the book. ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
If you’re a young, aspiring author living in Atlantic Canada, Ernest Buckler’s 1954 novel The Mountain and the Valley hits close to home. The hero of the book, David Canaan, is a young man who ... Read More »
August 10, 2005
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