Book links roundup: Kobo expands, Bezmozgis racks up the raves, and more
Sundry links from around the Web: Deirdre Baker’s tribute to the life and work of fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones Kobo kicks off European expansion: e-book stores set to open in Spain and Germany in...
View ArticlePublishing at the polls: Arts and culture platforms
Tonight is the first televised leadership debate of the federal election. It’s unlikely arts and culture will be mentioned, so here’s a primer on how all parties (including the Green Party) stand on...
View ArticleBook links round-up: happy authors, Amazon in Spain, and more
University of Chicago study ranks being an author as one of the 10 happiest jobs Actress Emma Thompson lands a deal with Penguin Young Readers Group to write The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit...
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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 a tribute to Apple and plenty of Thanksgiving recipes. Grace Kelly...
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Booksellers’ picks of the year: international non-fiction
Canadian booksellers contacted by Q&Q say 2011 has been an especially strong year for international history and biography, with one book clearly taking the lead. “The huge one would be the Steve...
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Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu get graphic
Quillblog is living vicariously through the Toronto Life team, which recently got cozy in a Toronto neighbourhood watering hole to eavesdrop on a conversation between author-illustrators Gary Taxali...
View ArticleBook links roundup: Jennifer Egan’s writing life, Brick Books redesigns...
Jennifer Egan talks to Paper Mag about her Pulitzer Prize, writing, and her awful temp jobs Brick Books launches new website Russell Smith finds this year’s lack of a Pulitzer Prize for fiction no big...
View ArticleLibrary and Archives Canada to eliminate more than 100 positions
The Globe and Mail is reporting that the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the country’s largest union of federal workers, has given layoff notices to 235 of its members at Library and Archives...
View ArticleBest books of 1999
Whether it was the post-millennial letdown – expectations for a literary blockbuster in the century’s final year ran high – or merely a year of bookish diversity, Q&Q’s fiction panel was...
View ArticleAll the Broken Things
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer prefaces her third novel by noting that some of its more putatively dubious plot points are in fact true. Namely, until the late 1970s, Ontario had a bear-wrestling circuit, the...
View ArticleDon’t steal this textbook “ download it
The Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam rails against the U.S. textbook industry, arguing that students who use illegal download sites… Read More »
View ArticlePhil Marchand lands at the National Post
Longtime Toronto Star book critic Phil Marchand, who switched jobs with former Star film critic Geoff Pevere at the beginning… Read More »
View ArticlePublishers fail to snap up book on Sarah Palin
In a vivid example of the dangers of writing history while it’s being made, the New York Observer reports that… Read More »
View ArticleGloomy times for the U.S. book trade
News broke yesterday that Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House U.S., is laying off 16 employees “ a… Read More »
View ArticleSenior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt quits
Becky Saletan, senior vice-president and publisher of the U.S.-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has quit, effective Dec. 10. From The Canadian… Read More »
View ArticleBig shake-ups at Random House U.S.
There’s some scary stuff going on at Random House in the U.S. today. Industry observers anticipated changes to the company’s… Read More »
View ArticleParsing Black Wednesday
One of the worst weeks in U.S. publishing history has left the book trade facing a grim tally. Just to… Read More »
View ArticleThe bad news continues for U.S. publishers
Black Wednesday saw three of the largest U.S. publishers announce massive layoffs and restructuring, and it seems there will be… Read More »
View ArticleBookmarks: Economic downturn edition
Canada’s Sun Media is cutting 600 jobs in Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada — about 10 percent of the workforce (CBCnews.ca)… Read More »
View ArticleBookmarks: More cuts at Borders, Atwood’s Dubai antics, and more
Borders announces more layoffs, cutting 136 jobs at their corporate offices After bowing out of the Emirates Airlines International Festival… Read More »
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