Update on Follow The Money
The world of non-fiction from Sutherland House ( and Beyond )
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The Globe: How Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope almost ended right after it started
Bill Vigars, author of Terry & Me, published a piece for the Globe and Mail. Read it here.
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Update on Follow The Money
Sorry to post twice in a day but thanks to Chris Oliveros at the esteemed Drawn & Quarterly, we’ve identified mistakes in this morning’s newsletter. I was going to wait until next week to post a correction but thought it was best to do so promptly. The Canada Book Fund does not consider
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Canada’s top 20 independents
As we’ve often noted at SHuSH, it’s difficult to find reliable information on the Canadian publishing industry, and especially the Canadian independent publishing industry. Most independents are privately owned and under no obligation to release their sales results to anyone. Except when they want grants. The Canada Book Fund is unique among Canadian granting agencies
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How we read today
[page_header] Every year BookNet Canada surveys a couple thousand book buyers and publishes the results along with a boatload of data on Canadian book sales compiled from the nation’s tills. I’m going to hit some of the highlights. If you’d like more, it’s for sale here. Let’s start with the good news. Bookstores came back
The luckiest biographers
The luckiest biographers Two huge books about controversial subjects are due this fall This is the 195th edition of SHuSH, the official newsletter of The Sutherland House Inc. If you’re new here, hit the button: Upgrade to paid We’re in for a fascinating battle of business biographies this autumn. In the red corner:
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Richard Charkin has lots to say
Fifty years ago, when Richard Charkin (above) began his career in the book trade, telephones were wired to desktops and editors (male) wrote their letters and memos in longhand,
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We Live in Stupid Times
An antidote, and a guest newsletter, from author Paul Wells
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