Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Until recently, students had no choice but to be part of the twice- or thrice-yearly bookstore crush. Wending their way through a maze of titles, ticking their way down a reading list, students traditionally loaded ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

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Publishing scholarly titles is an expensive, inefficient, and rarely profitable business. Press runs are low, typically 1,000 copies or less, and books can sit in a publisher’s warehouse for years before they are sold – ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

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In the Canadian publishing universe, few companies have found themselves more imperiled by prevailing economic conditions than the country’s scholarly presses. Most were founded in a very different era – the late ’60s and early ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

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Academic presses bridge the gap between the academic and commercial worlds, and that gap can be vast. Peter Milroy of University of British Columbia Press tells of the academic who admitted he wrote a manuscript ... Read More »

May 6, 2004