At the beginning of the decade, many sales reps, especially the younger ones, expected that the laptop computer would change their jobs radically: they foresaw a time when they could sit at a sales meeting ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
Before her 1994 nomination for a Giller Prize for her short fiction collection Casino and Other Stories, Bonnie Burnard was a fledgling Saskatchewan-based short story writer with little national profile. Burnard didn't win - the ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
As the techno-frenzied 1990s draw to a close, a fledgling collective representing creators' groups is push-ing for greater control of writers' electronic rights. TERLA (The Electronic Rights Licensing Agency) recently opened an office in Toronto, ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
The Canadian publishing industry is waiting eagerly to learn the outcome of a possible acquisition of Macmillan Canada, which has been officially for sale for much of the year.Sources believe the San Francisco-based IDG Books ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
In honour of Andy TongOn the last Friday of September, Canadian publishing lost a great book designer - Andy Tong. Andy worked full time for Dundurn Press from 1985 to 1994, and then freelanced for ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
Nancy Purcell Is HarperCollins' Toronto sales representative, but in today’s changing retail environment, selling isn't necessarily part of her day's work. One afternoon in late September, for example, she stopped at Indigo to do a ... Read More »
March 1, 2004
A group of eight audiobook publishers gave away thousands of tapes to Toronto bookstores during July in an effort to boost awareness of their products in Canada. The promotional campaign – the first collective initiative by ... Read More »
February 27, 2004
Tom Bollum is back in business. The former owner of the B.C.-based Bollum’s mini-chain opened a retail consulting firm in mid-July called Golden Key Consulting. Contacted at his office in West Vancouver, Bollum said he ... Read More »
February 27, 2004
A group of Vancouver book enthusiasts is launching an adult literature roundtable modelled after the highly successful roundtables devoted to children’s literature across the country. The focus of the roundtable gatherings will be primarily on ... Read More »
February 27, 2004
BookExpo America has some new competition – in the form of The Literary Congress, a new U.S. trade show that bills itself as “David in hot pursuit of Goliath.” Headed by Eileen Dengler, a former ... Read More »
February 27, 2004
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