Earlier this week we posted a link to a Robert McCrum column decrying the publicity demands that big-time authors must endure. Now, Canadian online commentator Alex Good has weighed in with some perspective, addressing both ... Read More »
Former Q&Q staff writer Devin Crawley is now maintaining his own blog, Enlightened Librarian, which features some wonderful writing about libraries, books, buildings, communities, and life in Ottawa. Here's a sample: a consideration of "the ... Read More »
January 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Margaret Atwood's invention of a remote book-signing machine -- first reported in the January issue of Q&Q and later picked up by The Globe and Mail and The Guardian, among others -- is now starting ... Read More »
January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
Over on the Dooney's Cafe site, Stan Persky has chosen Orhan Pamuk's Snow as his favourite book of 2004. But before explaining why, he has some choice words on the whole best-books phenomenon -- as ... Read More »
January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news
The media cult around Doug Pepper continues to grow with a brief piece in the Toronto alternative weekly eye. The M&S president has made the paper's "Five for '05" list of things that "may make ... Read More »
January 6, 2005 | Filed under: Events
Penguin U.K.'s let's-sex-up-reading campaign from earlier this year is still drawing notice. The latest example is this piece from the online B.C. magazine The Tyee. Writer Shannon Rupp has a few promising ideas on how ... Read More »
December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
The Danforth Review has a series of brief interviews with the editors of three Canadian literary journals: Maisonneuve, Matrix, and The Malahat Review.Matrix's Jon Paul Fiorentino has kind things to say about Canadian small presses ... Read More »
December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
It's the holy grail for the book industry -- empirical scientific data on just what makes a bestseller a bestseller. This Science Daily article tells of a study by "UCLA physicist and complex systems theorist ... Read More »
December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
The best-of-intentions book deal that just doesn't work out is a common occupational hazard for both authors and publishers. But what happens when the publisher wants its advance back, and the author says he doesn't ... Read More »
December 6, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news
It's a tale of production specs and hurt feelings. Megan Kelso put together Scheherazade, an anthology of female cartoonists for the New York City indie Soft Skull Press (which, though it's a propos of nothing ... Read More »
November 29, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news