Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

OLA launches Red Maple award

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The popularity of the Ontario Library Association's Silver Birch Awards has led to the introduction of a spin-off reading program this year geared toward students in Grades 7 and 8."Children like the idea of voting ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Tributes to W.O. Mitchell

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The following tributes to WO. Mitchell, by writer Sandra Birdsell and M&S publisher Douglas Gibson, were delivered at last year's PanCanadian Wordfest. The piece by writer and editor Frances Itani is excerpted from a tribute ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Into unknown territory

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THREE YEARS AGO, sales through online bookstores ranked about last on a long list of concerns in the Canadian book trade.That's starting to change. Although at present Amazon.com and Bar-nesandNoble.com can't claim more than a ... Read More »

March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Letters

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False connection made I was dismayed by the erroneous connection between the recent executive changes at Chapters and the memo sent to publishers by Curt Gray that was made in the article "Chapters memo rankles ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Land of the giants

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Last May, Penguin Canada, Canada's Virtual Bookstore, and an electronic publishing firm called ??r? Communications embarked on a joint venture that the three firms boldly described as a "first for Canadian publishing." They promised to ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Yep! Way!

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Following is an imagined conversation between a mall store manager and a sales rep included in a January memo from Chapters chief operating officer Curt Gray to all publishing sales presidents and V-Ps in Canada ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

The gathering of the clans

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It lacked the cocktail-fuelled flashiness of the Giller Prize and the pomp and circumstance of the Governor General's Awards, but the new Rogers Communication Writers' Trust Prize for Canadian Fiction and Viacom Canada Writers' Trust ... Read More »

March 4, 2004