February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
Just in time for the spring book season, a non-profit organization for self-published authors is getting an international roll-out. Headed up in London, England, by Orna Nass, an author and former literary agent, The Alliance ... Read More »
A team at the University of Alberta has traced the province's first book publishing enterprise to a Catholic missionary and polyglot. In The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country (University of Alberta Press, 2010), ... Read More »
February 6, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
"During the first weeks of spring 1974, when Jingqiu was still at senior high school, she and three other students were selected to take part in a project to compile a new school textbook." So ... Read More »
January 9, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
This week, the controversy dogging Chinese-Canadian author Ling Zhang's second novel, Gold Mountain Blues, flared up again as prominent Chinese-Canadian authors Wayson Choy, Sky Lee, and Paul Yee signed a letter asking Penguin Canada to ... Read More »
October 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Events, Industry news
In April, the design team for D&M Publishers swept the annual Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada, receiving 13 prizes in total. In the June issue of Q&Q, the team discusses ... Read More »
May 13, 2011 | Filed under: Industry news
McClelland & Stewart has long been associated with some of Canada's leading fiction authors. In an effort to shore up its reputation as a publisher of timely non-fiction, the company announced today the creation of ... Read More »
April 26, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
Toronto-based literary publisher Cormorant Books, has entered into an agreement with Thomas Allen & Son that will see Thomas Allen take over Cormorant's sales and distribution as of July 1. According to a joint press ... Read More »
April 18, 2011 | Filed under: Industry news
Tonight is the first televised leadership debate of the federal election. It's unlikely arts and culture will be mentioned, so here's a primer on how all parties (including the Green Party) stand on issues that ... Read More »
April 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news
Two years ago, Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books and Music, predicted that e-books would cannibalize 15 per cent of traditional book sales at her stores in five years' time. Reisman has ... Read More »
April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology, Industry news
As Canadians head to the polls on May 2, Q&Q looks at key federal policies affecting the publishing industry. Stay tuned for upcoming features on federal funding, mass digitization, and foreign-ownership regulations. After nearly a ... Read More »
April 7, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Industry news, Libraries, Opinion