Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

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Boom, Bust and Echo, by David K. Foot and Daniel Stoffman, sits atop Q&Q’s Bestseller Survey this month, as it has every month since it debuted on the list a year ago. Explaining the success of ... Read More »

November 3, 2003 | Filed under: Industry news

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Dream dealersTo the editor:Re: “The allure of print” (May 1997):With the demise of some government concessions and subsidies, publishers are increasingly hard-pressed to show a profit. Out of necessity, their selections of what to publish ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

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What the act says:Libraries: The Act to Amend the Copyright Act defines a library as a “non-profit” institution. No exceptions exist for special libraries in corporations. Other than for the purposes of fair dealing, which ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

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Party Favours, a political tell-all to be published this fall by HarperCollins, promises to reveal who’s doing what to whom in the back rooms of our nation’s capital. The author’s identity, however, is a closely ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

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• Robert de Niro, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ethan Hawke, and Anne Bancroft star in a 1990s update of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations, due this August. In Conspiracy Theories – coming in July – Julia ... Read More »

November 3, 2003 | Filed under: Book links

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DOUGLAS AND THE TRAMP: Having spent the last few years time-travelling through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the prolific Douglas Fetherling now plans to work his way around the world – in a tramp freighter. ... Read More »

November 3, 2003

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MONEY MATTERS• Canadian freelance writers haven’t had a pay increase in 18 years, according to a recent survey conducted by the Periodical Writers Association of Canada (PWAC). Poll findings indicate the average PWAC member earns ... Read More »

November 3, 2003