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BPAC Kids/Canadian Children's Book Centre's Annual Children's Gala

Photos from the annual event feting children's books and those who make and promote them. (Photos by Rannie Turingan.) The scene at HAL Burgers. Two new YA authors, Colin Frizzell and Alyxandra Harvey-Fitzhenry. Promotions people ... Read More »

June 10, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Starbucks ever-expanding media empire continues to inspire fear in indies

By Cassandra Drudi

An article in today's L.A. Times should have indie booksellers quaking in their boots – Starbucks is continuing its slow, inexorable crawl toward becoming a jack-of-all-trades in the media arena with the addition of audiobooks ... Read More »

May 30, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

American publishing took a nosedive last year

By Cassandra Drudi

Many media outlets, including Publishers Weekly, the L.A. Times, and Yahoo! News, unveiled yesterday the drop in output the American publishing industry showed in 2005. The number of new books and new editions of old ... Read More »

May 10, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Peck does it again

By Leigh Anne Williams

Bad-boy book reviewer and author Dale Peck has taken his literary-criticism-as-theatre approach (or perhaps literary criticism as pro wrestling) to its logical conclusion with a new look-at-me stunt. The U.S. website The Morning News asked ... Read More »

April 11, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Trends in YA reading, part one

By Scott MacDonald

The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

How to make a bookstore window display

By Leigh Anne Williams

Michael Cho is a Toronto cartoonist whose work will have a familiar look to folks who shop at Pages Books & Magazines -- Cho has designed the occasional display for the Queen Street store's main ... Read More »

March 3, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Grist for the publicity mill?

By Scott MacDonald

If advances accurately reflect the quality of books, the English-born, Edmonton-raised Matthew Skelton is the best kidlit writer you've never heard of – yet. After his story "The Man Who Did Not Dream" was chosen ... Read More »

February 21, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Nobel-nominated author, Crips founder, Tookie Williams executed

By Scott MacDonald

At 12:35 a.m. PST this morning, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer, gang founder, and Nobel Prize-nominated children's and YA author, was executed by lethal injection at the San Quentin State Prison just outside of San ... Read More »

December 13, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

By Scott MacDonald

In the middle of the holiday book-buying season, it seems that just about everyone is weighing in on kidlit. On the CBC website, Rachel Giese traces its trajectory from the 1970s and '80s, when realist ... Read More »

December 7, 2005 | Filed under: Authors

The ultimate product placement shot

By Scott MacDonald

A new kids' book to hit the shelves this holiday season marks a troubling trend in literary co-productions. Published by HarperCollins with what appears to be significant input from the fine folks at Saks Fifth ... Read More »

November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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Search Results by tag: children's books

BPAC Kids/Canadian Children's Book Centre's Annual Children's Gala

Starbucks ever-expanding media empire continues to inspire fear in indies

American publishing took a nosedive last year

Peck does it again

Trends in YA reading, part one

How to make a bookstore window display

Grist for the publicity mill?

Nobel-nominated author, Crips founder, Tookie Williams executed

Seeking the next J.K. Rowling

The ultimate product placement shot

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