With a new president and executive director at its helm, the Association of Canadian Publishers is evaluating its goals and priorities. Q&Q news editor Carol Toller recently spoke with president Michael Harrison about what the ... Read More »
The following is an excerpt from E.con: How the Internet Undermines Democracy, published by Stoddart Publishing. © 1999 by Donald GutsteinIf Canadians ever set up a public information network, libraries will be the home page. ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
After 12 years as a journalist, editor, and columnist for Ontario’s Hamilton Spectator, Wade Hemsworth has a new assignment: writing a novel for the newspaper. Over a period of one year, Hemsworth is writing a ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Libraries
In the opening line of “Soup du Jour,” one of the 22 stories in her new collection Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields states what could be her credo. “Everyone is coming out these ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Events, Industry news
Even for major Canadian publishing companies – let alone small academic houses – going public is still an unusual move. But Calgary’s Broadview Press has taken just such a step. The company has arranged to ... Read More »
April 5, 2004
After 10 years in the Stoddart Publishing empire, Macfarlane Walter & Ross has jumped to McClelland & Stewart, which acquired 100% of the firm early in January for an undisclosed price. The move will go ... Read More »
April 5, 2004
Call it the Rashomon school of public relations. In November, a couple of government decisions came down that carried implications for several areas of the trade. Various press releases crawled from the Q&Q fax machine, ... Read More »
The Ontario Securities Commission announced yesterday that it will hold a hearing Wednesday in Toronto concerning a complaint about Trilogy Retail Enterprises’ hostile bid for Chapters. The surprise is that the hearing will address a ... Read More »
April 5, 2004
One of the difficulties surrounding Q&Q’s list of the century’s best 40 Canadian novels, published in July, was defining for the judges what we meant by the word “best.” In the end, we let them ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book links
The Bob Edwards Luncheon is the social highlight of the year for Calgary book-lovers. Having covered this annual extravaganza for the Herald on 17 or 18 occasions, I say this with some authority.When Margaret Atwood, ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
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