The demise of the book has been predicted many times, but when Microsoft takes up a cause, people start to listen.The software giant believes it has found the breakthrough it needs to convince people to ... Read More »
It hasn’t appeared on bestseller lists, but one of the hottest titles of 1999 may be a book that’s been around since 1955: The Guinness Book of Records. Bound in flashy silver foil, Guinness Worldguinness-sales-top-300000/> ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Like many business titles, Tom Koppel’s Powering the Future: The Ballard Fuel Cell and the Race to Change the World began as a magazine article. Fascinated by the story of a groundbreaking technology and encouraged ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Last January the chief executive officer of Ontario’s London Public Library announced his retirement. An accredited librarian traditionally fills that position, so the library board set out to find one. But a 10-month effort, including ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Max Maccari has a clear vision for the new SpeakEasy Café reading series: Every Sunday evening, several Starbucks locations across Toronto will host an evening of readings. Each will present three readers, with books of ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
It took a bit longer than expected, but soon every Grade 1 student in the country will have received a present from the Canadian Book Manufacturers’ Association (CBMA). To promote reading among young people, the ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Toronto bookseller Patrick Hempelmann deals primarily in used books, but over the past year, he’s been increasingly supplementing his inventory at his two stores with remainders. And he’s not alone: managers of CIROBE, the annual ... Read More »
April 5, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Organizers of the Montreal Salon du livre picked the wrong year to target kids for their annual event. In addition to the salon’s usual rich mix of author signings and roundtables, this year’s event featured ... Read More »
A long court battle has ended in disappointment for three legal publishers. Carswell, CCH Canadian, and Canada Law Book launched legal action against the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1993, hoping to prevent the ... Read More »
April 5, 2004
Bookseller Thora Howell has closed the doors of The Book Store on Bastion Street after 21 years, but she isn’t leaving the business entirely. During the fall Howell cleared out her remaining stock and shuttered ... Read More »
April 5, 2004
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