Search Results by tag: Indigo

Hope for school libraries (in Ontario, anyway)

Heather Reisman can take a bow today. The Indigo CEO appears to have shamed Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty into promising a major funding boost for the province's cash-starved school library system. As The Globe and ... Read More »

September 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Puff's creator comes to Canada

By Q&Q Staff

"Puff, the Magic Dragon" co-writer Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary) was in Toronto in late August to promote a new picture book based on the classic song. Canadian distributor Canadian Manda Group squired ... Read More »

August 27, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Heard & Overheard (Sunday and Monday miscellany)

By Q&Q Staff

"Will Carol Shields be signing today?" – An Indigo staffer at the Goose Lane booth. "Four hundred pages, a few jokes.... We take ourselves too seriously." – Jean Chrétien hard-sells his book to the crowd ... Read More »

June 11, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

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

Writing reality TV

By Alison Jones

This past Sunday, Book Television started airing its reality series, 3-Day Novel Contest. Indigo and Book Television teamed up to produce the eight-part program, which follows 12 contestants as they live and write for the ... Read More »

February 7, 2007 | Filed under: Events

He's back: Stevenson returns to Canada

By Leigh Anne Williams

Larry Stevenson is back in Toronto, and Globe and Mail business reporter Gordon Pitts has a Q&A with the Chapters founder. After losing Chapters to Indigo in a hostile takeover, Stevenson reportedly studied at the ... Read More »

January 22, 2007 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

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

Power in a union

By Leigh Anne Williams

Jason Sullivan, who works at the Robson Street Chapters store in Vancouver, isn’t your typical chain employee: he helped organize a union at the store in 2005, bringing the employees into the service sector local ... Read More »

January 3, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Photo grab-bag

By Q&Q Staff

Chris Bosh visits Indigo; Different Drummer and Bryan Prince team up for a pre-Giller shindig; and Toronto. Toronto Raptors star Chris Bosh helped to promote reading at Indigo. Photo courtesy of Penguin Canada Canadian Manda ... Read More »

November 9, 2006 | Filed under: Events

Launch for Dave Stubb's Our Game: The History of Hockey

By Q&Q Staff

Author Dave Stubbs signed copies of his new book Our Game: The History of Hockey at a Montreal Indigo store. Montreal Canadiens defenceman Sheldon Souray helped out. (Photos by Michael Ball.) Montreal Canadiens defenceman Sheldon ... Read More »

September 22, 2006 | Filed under: Events

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