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Weekend reading list: top stories from around our offices

Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include extreme winter activities and a holiday gift guide. Fifteen extreme Canadian winter activities [Where ... Read More »

November 19, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Weekend reading list: top stories from around our offices

By Sue Carter

Every weekend Q&Q rounds up the highlights from other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. This week's top stories include photos from the Signal imprint launch and street fashion from New York, Milan, and ... Read More »

October 15, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Weekend reading from St. Joseph Media

By Sue Carter

From the latest film festival news to trendsetting fashions, here are the week's top stories from around the St. Joseph Media offices: Toronto Life: Up to the minute celebrity and industry news from the 2011 ... Read More »

September 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Book biz round-up: Canada’s poor copyright rep, and more

By Natalie Samson

Canada lands on the International Intellectual Property Alliance's priority watch list as "haven" for international piracy organizations All-nighter term papers just got a lot trickier: design flaw at University of Calgary's new state-of-the-art library leaves ... Read More »

March 10, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

New media “unconference” in Toronto this weekend

By Natalie Samson

It can be a little tricky staying on top of the latest in new and social media these days. A few hours at PodCamp Toronto this weekend could be time well-spent in figuring out how ... Read More »

February 24, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

By Scott MacDonald

According to The Guardian, Nobel jury head Horace Engdahl has got a bit of a hate-on for U.S. authors, describing U.S. writing as "insular and ignorant": Permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Horace Engdahl told ... Read More »

October 1, 2008 | Filed under: Awards, Opinion

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

Get yourself out there

By Leigh Anne Williams

Wall Street Journal media reporter Jeffrey Trachtenberg gives the Media Bistro site his take on a few of publishing's recent hot topics, including technology, genre trends, and someone named James Frey. He also discusses the ... Read More »

February 20, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

We're on a road to nowhere

By Leigh Anne Williams

Following his participation in Humber College's first summer publishing workshop, writer Hal Niedzviecki has turned his experiences -- he served as one of three judges of the students' final projects, along with Kim McArthur and ... Read More »

October 13, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

The science of sales?

By Leigh Anne Williams

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

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Search Results by tag: trends

Weekend reading list: top stories from around our offices

Weekend reading list: top stories from around our offices

Weekend reading from St. Joseph Media

Book biz round-up: Canada’s poor copyright rep, and more

Nobel jury head slams U.S. authors

Trends in YA reading, part one

Get yourself out there

We're on a road to nowhere

The science of sales?

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