If you’ve been following the rapid development of Internet commerce in the past year or so, you may want to take a second look at creating your own web site or revamping the one you ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
If a superstore is coming your way, it may be time to look carefully at the costs of running your bookstore. The goal should be to make your operation more efficient – more able to ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
“Welcome to our indie smorgasbord,” announces Jim Munroe to an audience of more than 80 beer-drinking book-lovers at a restaurant on College Street in Toronto. The occasion is the co-launch of Munroe’s novel Everyone in ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
For the right type of book, consumer advertising can be an effective, if expensive, way of creating the buzz required to make it a bestseller. So when Goose Lane Editions released Frank: The Life and ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
Two years ago, the rhetoric surrounding print-on-demand technology was revolutionary in tone, marked by visions of bookstores stocked with in-house printers. But so far, digital printing has been slow to catch fire with the general ... Read More »
Halfway through an interview about the release of the fourth Harry Potter title, Allan MacDougall’s voice goes quiet. What he says next could be a publisher’s sell line, or a huckster’s false confidence, except his ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
As public Internet use has increased in libraries across Canada, so too have debates among boards, staff, and patrons about filtering. Filtering software can block access to selected material at a specific computer, but also ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
Patrick Jones, a U.S. expert on teens, doesn’t mince words when he describes the problems that can arise when teenagers use libraries. “Libraries are quiet, teenagers are loud, and opposites attract,” he says. “Teens travel ... Read More »
April 6, 2004
When Roch Carrier assumed the role of National Librarian in October, he embarked on a two-week, 12-city tour, from Vancouver to Iqaluit to Charlottetown, asking librarians about their expectations and concerns regarding the National Library ... Read More »
April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
The contrast was striking. In one of the large conference rooms at Kelowna’s Grand Okanagan Resort this spring, some 200 members of the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA) crowded in for their annual general meeting. ... Read More »
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