Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Chapters memo rankles trade

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Chapters has fired another volley in its two-year-old campaign to stop publishers' sales reps from visiting mall stores, but the company's method of communicating its stepped-up policy has raised some eyebrows in the industry.In mid-January, ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Letters

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All stores are not of treated equallyIn his letter that appealed in the January 1998 issue, Nicholas Pashley wonders if the practice of reverse volume discounts to university bookstores is legal.Several years ago, when I ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

Indies vs. chains

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When Q&Q conducted its last store survey (featured in the March 1997 issue), most independent retailers didn't face direct competition from a superstore. A year later, many of them do. Has head-to-head competition from big-box ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

New Latin to Old English

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It’s too bad Latin has fallen off the curriculum in Canadian schools, if only because we are all still in the habit of flinging around Latin sayings. The one I'm thinking of is ad hominem, ... Read More »

March 4, 2004

It was grand, so grand

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As good as last year's Slushie Awards show was, it really couldn't compare with the brazen spectacle of the Book Publishers Professional Association's almost-annual Christmas Cabaret and No Returns Revue. So Quill was rather thrilled ... Read More »

March 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Best Books of 1997

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There’s no doubt about it: 1996 was a hard act to follow. After a bounty of stellar titles that, more than a year later, are still selling (think Fall on Your Knees, Fugitive Pieces, and ... Read More »

March 4, 2004