Jonina Wood slaps a hand affectionately on the 560-page Canada Year Book 1999 and says, with more than a hint of pride, “People are surprised that the government would put this out.”Wood – a towering, ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
With major international reference works leaving printed pages for Web pages, Canadian publishers are not about to be left behind in the world of print and bind when surf and click is the place to ... Read More »
May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
If publishers of professional, trade, and reference (PTR) books may once have been content to target mostly corporate or government customers, changing market conditions are prompting them to look to new ways to sell their ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
The last thing Don Waters does before heading to court is check an online information source to see if there have been any last-minute rulings that could affect his case.Waters, who recently completed articling at ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
The professional, trade, and reference segment of Canada’s book market will make room for a new sales force this summer. Jacqueline Gross and Associates, the country’s first sales agency devoted exclusively to PTR titles, officially ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Electronic legal services may be the height of convenience for lawyers, but they’re not making things any less complicated for law librarians, who say they must now make information available in print, CD-ROM, and online ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Just as Esther Vincent, co-owner of Marginal Distribution in Peterborough, Ontario, noticed in May that orders from Tower Records in Toronto had been on the rise, averaging close to 300 titles per month, a seven-page ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Penguin’s Canadian Gardening series was launched last spring during one of the worst gardening seasons in recent history. But although cold, damp weather may have hindered planting and pruning, it didn’t hurt Penguin’s sales – ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
One August afternoon in 1988, Frank Edwards and his four-year-old son, Scott, went rowing on Killenbeck Lake, northeast of Kingston, Ontario. Scott fiddled with the oars, his father basked in the sun, and the breeze ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
To pick up a few bucks on the side, Seattle private eye Jane da Silva takes a gig as a lounge singer at a local hotel. The evening starts quietly. She croons to a room ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
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