New company launches surgery guides

It may seem like a less-than-ideal time to launch a publishing house, but a new small press specializing in medical guides thinks it’s come up with a winning formula. Script Medical Press, which unveils its ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Dropped Threads spawns web site, future sequel

By Q&Q Staff

Since its release last January, Dropped Threads: What We Aren’t Told has been a regular at the top end of Inside Report’s bestseller list. Now publisher Vintage Canada has launched a web site dedicated to ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Stock shortage ahead for Booker winner

By Q&Q Staff

Australian author Peter Carey won the Booker Prize last week for True History of the Kelly Gang, but Canadian booksellers may find it difficult to meet demand for the novel over the next several weeks. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004

Critical mass

By Q&Q Staff

Investors were in no mood to celebrate over Chapters’ third-quarter earnings. In the hours following the release of the company’s quarterly report in early February, share prices of both the retail chain and its online ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

Malcolm in the middle

By Q&Q Staff

If Malcolm Gladwell’s forthcoming book becomes this year’s runaway bestseller – the book that everyone’s reading, from the kid in the mailroom to the CEO of the Fortune 500 company – he’ll have a bunch ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Avoiding disaster often means planning for one

By Q&Q Staff

One morning last December, employees at the National Library of Canada smelled sulphuric fumes emanating from a computer room’s power supply unit. Quickly forming what the library calls a “response action team,” on-site staffers supervised ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Canada Book Day gives book buyers a break

By Q&Q Staff

Organizers of Canada Book Day say this year could be a watershed for the annual event now that plans have been finalized for a $2-off coupon that will be accepted in almost every bookstore in ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Awards

Nancy Walsh created student anthology

By Q&Q Staff

Nancy Walsh, a key staff member of McMaster University Press and the creator and editor of Main Street, an anthology of student writing that gave dozens of writers their first publishing success, died in her ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news, Libraries

Anne Hebert: a singular voice of wisdom and rigour

By Q&Q Staff

The following tribute was written by Odile Tremblay and first appeared in Le Devoir. Translation by Bernard Kelly.Her beautiful, luminous face and her limpid style, pained, fervent and undogmatically spiritual, surpassed both time and territory. ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book links

Chapters Online contract irks writers

By Q&Q Staff

Discussions have broken off between Chapters Online and the Periodical Writers Association of Canada (PWAC), which is now advising freelance writers not to sign on to provide content to the Internet retailer. In a statement ... Read More »

February 2, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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