Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Partners in prose

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Most booksellers would probably agree relations with publishers took a turn for the worse this spring. HarperCollins cut off accounts with the highest returns, the Canbook debacle continued unabated, and the controversial distribution right received ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Leaner, faster, stronger

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On June 13, a few days before the start of this year’s Canadian Booksellers Association convention, 160 Chapters managers will hop on a plane and jet down to Paradise Island in the Caribbean for a ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Jargon-free living

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Here’s a word you don’t see very often: disidentifactory. In fact, this may be only the second time it’s ever been used, the first being in a review by Frederick Luis Aldama of a book ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Information’s new age

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Libraries and librarians need to reinvent themselves for the years ahead – or risk becoming irrelevant in a “disintermediated” world where library patrons are finding more and more information on their own, says Canadian Library ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

CLA convention preview

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Information from around the world is the official theme of this year’s Canadian Library Association convention, but members gathering in Winnipeg from June 13 to 18 will likely be pondering an issue much closer to ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Break the silence

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Less than a year after ruling that the Borders-Heather Reisman partnership did not satisfy the Canadian-control component of its cultural ownership guidelines, the Canadian government is keeping strangely silent about another American foray into the ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

And now, Now!

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As she prepares a gutsy foray into an industry pulsing with change, Heather Reisman – Liberal fundraiser, former management consultant, and food industry executive at Cott Corp. – may well become the enigma of Canadian ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

Allies for don’t tax reading

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The Don’t Tax Reading movement has two new boosters: Nova Scotia finance minister Bernard Boudreau and Progressive Conservative Senator Consiglio Di Nino. Boudreau promised to raise the issue with federal finance minister Paul Martin following ... Read More »

April 6, 2004

The Indigo way

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Indigo Books and its owner Heather Reisman are turning out to be the enigmas of Canada’s book industry. Canadian publishers weary of scrapping with Chapters are pulling for Reisman’s upscale vision of bookselling. But they ... Read More »

April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Deals