They were frowned on, his teachers certainly didn't approve, but aside from turning a blind eye, what could they do? Besides, you could get them over the counter, and all the other kids were doing ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
Following is an excerpt from the luncheon address at the Reading for the Love of It conference, sponsored by the East York-Scarborough Reading Association and held in Toronto Feb. 13.If you love books, as I ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
Recently I received the galleys of a novel I'd translated for Stoddart Publishing. Be it a book you've written or translated, the day the galleys show up at your door is always a big one. ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
There will be no Salon du livre in Quebec City next fall - and there may not be ever again. Following a long, and often heated, dispute with publishers, the Corporation du Salon du livre ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
McGill-Queen's University Press is launching a new poetry series. The MacLennan Poetry Series - named after author Hugh MacLennan, who worked as an English professor at the university and left his intellectual property to the ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
Gale Canada's offices will close on Apr. 17. The company's eight employees were told in early March that because of restructuring, production of the Canadian Periodical Index- in print and electronic formats - was being ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
Two spring releases, Canada in the Soviet Mirror by J.L. Black and Economic Intelligence and National Security, edited by Evan H. Potter, could be the last ever to come out of 16-year-old Carleton University Press. ... Read More »
March 5, 2004
When IDG released Basketball for Dummies last November, marketing „ manager Chris Cox faced a particularly Canadian dilemma: How do you sell a book about basketball to a country full of hockey fans?Ironically, the title ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
Eleven daily newspapers in Quebec and eastern Ontario are considering doing a photo book of Canada's worst climatic disaster in recent history — the devastating storm in early January that transformed the region into an ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
Vicki Whitmell, the new executive director of the Canadian Library I Association, plans to take a cross-country road trip this fall as part of the CLA's marketing drive to promote its services to existing members ... Read More »
March 4, 2004
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