July 19, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Journalist Alan Weisman has just published The World Without Us, a non-fiction tome based on an intriguing premise: how would the Earth change if the human population disappeared overnight? The book has already drawn some ... Read More »
And so ends Q&Q's up-to-the-minute coverage of BookExpo Canada 2007. This was our first time blogging the show, so we are very interested to hear what we got right, what we got wrong, where we ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
As the BookExpo Canada trade show wound up on Monday afternoon, Scott Temple, the show's managing director, said that the BOOKED! consumer fest would definitely return in 2008 – but that it would incorporate lessons ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
BookExpo Canada would appear, on the surface, to be primarily about books – the publishing, marketing, selling, and occasionally writing thereof – but most BEC-goers know that being on the trade floor is all about ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Employing utterly and unapologetically unscientific methodology, Q&Q has picked Coach House's "hockey office" (our name) as booth of the year. Yes, other booths were splashier, with poker tables or 3-D Simpsons families, some were slicker, ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Fashionistas at this year's BookExpo Canada were quick to notice an emerging trend: the grey-haired ponytail. Several men wore this signature look with a casual grace. It's a bold statement that we'd like to coin ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
"Will Carol Shields be signing today?" – An Indigo staffer at the Goose Lane booth. "Four hundred pages, a few jokes.... We take ourselves too seriously." – Jean Chrétien hard-sells his book to the crowd ... Read More »
June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Booksellers cemented their love affair with The Birth House author Ami McKay at Sunday night's Libris Awards ceremony. Not only did McKay win Author of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year, she also ... Read More »
June 10, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
It's a big show for BookNet Canada, which announced several new projects on the eve of this year's BookExpo. One of those is a study of the way returns affect the Canadian book market. "Nobody ... Read More »
June 10, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized