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Previewing our newest print issue

The April 2007 issue of Quill & Quire will appear in stores and in subscribers' mailboxes over the next week or so. It includes a profile of Toronto novelist Cordelia Strube, a Special Report on ... Read More »

March 14, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

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

Defending Regan

By Leigh Anne Williams

In the wake of Judith Regan’s firing from HarperCollins last month, another Regan supporter has emerged in reporter and author Steve Ketterman, writing in SF Gate. Ketterman was the ghostwriter of one Regan title, Jose ... Read More »

January 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Gaspereau

By Q&Q Staff

Rod McDonald and Glenn Goluska show off a specimen sheet of McDonald's new typeface, Slate (which is used in Q&Q along with another McDonald-designed typeface, Laurentian). Photo by Stan Bevington / Courtesy of Gasperau McDonald ... Read More »

November 2, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Google highlights banned books

By Nathan Whitlock

Google has been in the centre of an ongoing controversy over the merits and dangers of its plan to digitize whole libraries worth of books, but its initiative to celebrate banned books as a part ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Could a computer write this blog?

By Cassandra Drudi

The Financial Times reported last week that a U.S. news service has designed computer programs to write stories for them. "Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since ... Read More »

August 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

By Cassandra Drudi

Literary Saloon links to a VietNamNet Bridge story on the difficulties Vietnamese publishers face. Vietnam has been tightening control over copyrights in the wake of the ratification of the Bern Convention for Literary and Artistic ... Read More »

August 22, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

Author draws her own damn cover

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lionel Shriver, the author of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, is apparently publishing a new novel soon -- and she isn't too thrilled with the cover design process. In an arts column ... Read More »

August 3, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Update: Brick Lane fracas rages on

By Cassandra Drudi

Quillblog linked last month to the Guardian's coverage of the Brick Lane brouhaha, which consisted of east London borough Tower Hamlets residents putting up a stink about the production of a film based on Monica ... Read More »

August 2, 2006 | Filed under: Uncategorized

Designers at the Design Exchange

By Q&Q Staff

The Alcuin Awards for book design were officially handed out earlier this year in Vancouver, but the organizers decided to hold a smaller reception in Toronto on July 13 that also coincided with the start ... Read More »

July 25, 2006 | Filed under: Events

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Search Results by tag: design

Previewing our newest print issue

Read the writing on my back

Defending Regan

Gaspereau

Google highlights banned books

Could a computer write this blog?

Vietnam adjusts to new book business

Author draws her own damn cover

Update: Brick Lane fracas rages on

Designers at the Design Exchange

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