Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

For the week of Sept. 7, 2003

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Hardcover fiction1. Deafening, Frances Itani (HarperFlamingo Canada, $34.95, 0-00-200539-5)2. The Murder Room, P.D. James (Knopf Canada, $37.95, 0-676-97615-8)3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Doubleday, $29.95, 0-385-65979-2) 4. Garbo Laughs, Elizabeth Hay (McClelland ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

For the week of Aug. 24, 2003

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Hardcover fiction1. The Murder Room, P.D. James (Knopf Canada, $37.95, 0-676-97615-8)2. The Teeth of the Tiger, Tom Clancy (Putnam/Penguin, $40, 0-399-15079-X)3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Doubleday, $29.95, 0-385-65979-2) 4. A Place ... Read More »

March 10, 2004

For the week of Aug. 31, 2003

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Hardcover fiction1. The Murder Room, P.D. James (Knopf Canada, $37.95, 0-676-97615-8)2. River of the Brokenhearted, David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada, $37, 0-385-65887-73. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (Doubleday, $29.95, 0-385-65979-2) 4. The ... Read More »

March 10, 2004

CD-ROM maker Discis shuts down

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Discis Knowledge Research Inc., one of the first software publishers to produce children’s books on CD-ROM, has closed its doors. The failure was announced Aug. 7, after founder John Lowry conceded he could not find ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Best of best

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Do Canadian bestseller lists ever agree? It was certainly our impression a year ago, when we launched the Bestseller Survey (right), that they don’t. But in examining the three bestseller lists on our survey over the ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Doug Brown

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Doug Brown, a longtime sales rep and bon vivant, died Aug. 12 following a brief bout with cancer. He had just turned 50.Brown’s reputation among bookstore and library buyers – and publishers – was considerable, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Schools buy fewer texts – survey

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Spending on learning resources by provincial governments is continuing to slide downward, according to an update report released by the Canadian Publishers’ Council.Equipping Our Classrooms for Tomorrow 1996, prepared by the council’s school publishers’ group, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004

Big backing for Looneyspoons

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Finance whiz David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber, looks set to become the healthy barber through his involvement in a new project – a low-fat cookbook.Although Chilton says he has seen more than 500 ... Read More »

March 9, 2004