Liza Algar has been named Douglas & McIntyre’s new marketing director. Most recently a producer on Vicki Gabereau’s CTV talk show, Algar begins her new job on May 10.Prior to her TV work, Algar accumulated ... Read More »
“The House That Books Built,” a charity book sale organized by Canadian Manda Group, has raised $67,000 for a Habitat for Humanity housing project in the Toronto area. Manda has organized occasional charity sales in ... Read More »
Bill DouglasFounder, The Bang, TorontoDesign philosophy: To be true to the book and its audience, but to expand the medium at the same time. To look at what is being done in the industry and ... Read More »
How do Canadian book designers stack up against their U.S. and British counterparts? Not badly, according to our panel, who looked at the covers of five books by Canadian authors published here, in the U.S., ... Read More »
As The Calgary Herald’s chief literary correspondent from October 2000 to December 2002, I looked after a books section that ranged from one-and-a-half to three pages during my tenure. Outside of the section, I also ... Read More »
Small presses may have fared poorly on Q&Q’s survey, but poets and poetry publishers can cheer the fact that newspapers did nearly three times as many reviews of poetry books in 2002 as they did ... Read More »