Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Get the context rightI am writing to clarify my statements as quoted in “Goodbye Hockey Sweater, hello Casey at the Bat” in your October issue.Not only was I not properly identified in the article, many ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Events, Industry news

The Duchovney files

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With grants as uncertain now as they ever have been, publishers, especially the smaller ones, will have to rely more on their own resources to keep going. The literary presses who have up to this ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The changing face of death

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The charts below list the 10 leading causes of death for Canadian men and women aged 65 and over. Although coronary heart disease has ranked first among both sexes for the past 40 years, lung ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

Dealing in rarities

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Veteran Toronto antiquarian book dealer David Mason tells this I anecdote about how business has changed since his store went online, posting about 3,500 titles from his collection on a U.S. web site called Advanced ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

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Don’t tarnish the chainI enjoyed reading Paul Spendlove’s recap of BookExpo Canada in the August issue of Q&Q (“BookExpo Canada an upbeat, mostly Ontario affair”). As a bookseller in B.C., I concur with the West ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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Library renewalRe: “Don’t shush them in” (June 2003)Over the past few years, I have read many of the articles Q&Q has printed with respect to school libraries, and the concerns over the serious decline in ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

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More feedback neededI was really glad to see David Hunt’s column in the May issue (“Are you listening to your reps?”) and will make a point of handing copies of it to several sales reps ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

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No graspI was very pleased to see Scott Richardson’s input into the panel that led to the article “Make your advertising more effective” in the April issue of Quill & Quire, especially as he seemed ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

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All the things that matterKenneth Oppel is a wonderful writer and usually a perceptive reviewer. However, his review of The Canning Season, by Polly Horvath (Mar. 2003), was so wide of the mark I feel ... Read More »

March 31, 2004

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It seems strange that the Best Books of 2002 feature in February’s Q&Q would go out of its way to mention one award-winner published in 2001, and yet not the 2002 Governor General’s fiction winner. ... Read More »

March 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news