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Scenes from the BEA show floor

Canadian sightings at the BEA trade show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. Thomas Allen publisher Patrick Crean and Transatlantic Literary Agency agent Samantha Haywood turned out to see the signing of ... Read More »

June 6, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

By Q&Q Staff

Claire Cameron launched her first novel, The Line Painter (HarperCollins Canada), at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel on April 26. (Photos courtesy of HarperCollins Canada) Cameron with HarperCollins Canada marketing manager Lindsey Lowy ... ... and with ... Read More »

May 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Once more, with feeling

By Q&Q Staff

Our BookExpo Canada preview, from the June issue of Q&Q. Tentative optimism seems to be the general mood going into BookExpo Canada this year. After some exhibitor grumbling last year about high costs and low ... Read More »

May 1, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Raw Shark in Toronto

By Nathan Whitlock

The New York Times has published an excerpt of British author Steven Hall's debut novel The Raw Shark Texts. Hall was in Toronto yesterday for the launch of the Canadian edition, which has been marketed ... Read More »

April 25, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Freedom Day at the Q&Q home office

By Leigh Anne Williams

Our undying thanks to the Friends of Q&Q who managed to smuggle a small carton of the new Stephen Colbert ice cream all the way from Rochester, New York, to our downtown Toronto HQ. Ice ... Read More »

April 12, 2007 | Filed under: Authors

Fun with press releases (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

Word is that the much-loved – er, well, much-remembered – Choose Your Own Adventure books are about to relaunch with a new series (with Canadian Manda distributing in Canada). So it only makes sense that ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Love not given lightly at Simon & Schuster Canada launch

By Q&Q Staff

Simon & Schuster Canada launched Susan Winemaker's Concertina: The Life and Loves of a Dominatrix at Toronto's Spoke Club on March 7. (Photos by Simon & Schuster Canada.) Susan Winemaker talks with S&S marketing director ... Read More »

March 13, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Read the writing on my back

By Alison Jones

Rather than provide free advertising by wearing clothing from corporations that can easily afford to buy marketing campaigns, why not encourage literacy by wearing what you read? The website Literary Rags produces literary themed t-shirts ... Read More »

February 23, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Bookselling

Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

By Leigh Anne Williams

Prominent indie bookseller Richard Bachmann has spoken out about the More Canada initiative, in which several Canadian publishers are seeking funding to subsidize display placement for their titles in Indigo and indie bookstores. In a ... Read More »

January 18, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling, Opinion

Tragedy plus very little time = comedy?

By Alison Jones

In the wake of the Advanced Marketing Services (AMS) bankruptcy filing, one anonymous blogger is finding some dark humour in the experience. Radio Free PGW, which launched on January 5, includes some updates on events ... Read More »

January 9, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: marketing

Scenes from the BEA show floor

Claire Cameron launches The Line Painter

Once more, with feeling

Raw Shark in Toronto

Freedom Day at the Q&Q home office

Fun with press releases (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)

Love not given lightly at Simon & Schuster Canada launch

Read the writing on my back

Just say no to publicly funded marketing: Bachmann

Tragedy plus very little time = comedy?

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