Canada’s Guest of Honour role at Frankfurt postponed until 2021
Canada FBM2020 is now discouraging Canadians from physically attending the pivotal October book fair in 2020.
Rocky Mountain Books publisher Don Gorman on selling outdoor guides during a pandemic
As restrictions in provincial parks began to lift, RMB launched its “Great Canadian Staycation” campaign, promoting safe distancing and outdoor recreation.
Publishers question how best to promote novels that have unexpected real-world relevance during COVID-19
“I’m hoping that by September and October, books that are actually set in a pandemic won’t feel too true to life,” Wolsak & Wynn publisher Noelle Allen says.
Stories of strength and resilience: Honouring the publishing industry’s COVID-19 heroes
Q&Q’s June issue celebrated the publishing industry’s innovative, generous spirit during the trials of COVID-19.
Stories of strength and resilience: the publishing community’s heroes, chosen by you
Q&Q asked the publishing community to nominate heroes who have in some way, big or small, contributed to sustaining the industry.
In the wake of layoffs, Banff will offer two literary arts workshops online for fall
The three-day courses, dedicated to investigative journalism and to genre fiction, will be held online.
Essay: Timothy Findley believed that in times of crisis, imagination has the power to save
Sherrill Grace, an officer of the Order of Canada, on Timothy Findley’s prescient plague writing.
Indigo closes 20 Coles small-format stores amid “seismic” losses
The closed stores were described as either “not profitable or very, very marginal.”
Author Marilee Peters adds new COVID-19 chapter to Patient Zero, her middle-grade pandemic primer
When the non-fiction book was published by Annick Press in 2014 it sold 9,000 copies. Since March, it’s sold 20,000 more.
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