May 13, 2004
Mass market publishers and wholesalers – long accustomed to low sell-through, high returns, and fickle consumer trends – are not unfamiliar with volatility. But this fall, they’ll be trying to crack a comparatively tougher nut: ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
September saw the unveiling of a new mass market imprint from Avon Books: Avon Twilight releases original and reprint mysteries in hardcover, original trade, and mass market formats, and boasts such luminaries as James Ellroy ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Where do gardening trends come from? Some say the media – all those glossy magazines, gardening books, and TV shows that do interviews with designers discussing how to install a pond or place a statue or ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
In 1990, David Foot told the Ontario Home Builders Association annual conference to expect a crash in the real-estate market at the end of the decade. As the baby-boom generation ages, they said, the much ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
One of the most eagerly anticipated gardening books in the prairie provinces this year may be 101 Best Plants for the Prairies, by Liesbeth Leatherbarrow and Lesley Reynolds, slated for a November release. Published by ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Ask Derek Hayes how his garden grows these days and he’s apt to give a green thumbs-up. His small B.C.-based publishing and distributing house, Cavendish Books, has flourished by cultivating both ends of its gardening ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
When Margie Wolfe started making cold calls to gift shops several years ago, pitching Second Story Press titles to store owners, the number of positive responses she received convinced her that the market was worth ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
Backed by the deep pockets of CanWest Global and currently recording 900,000 page views a month, Vancouver-based Medbroadcast.com is poised to become a major source of health information in Canada – and to give health-book ... Read More »
May 13, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
Just a year ago, reading material on alternative health care at Rexall Drug Stores was confined to the magazine rack at the back of the store. Today, Rexall has a special section devoted to natural ... Read More »
May 13, 2004
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