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The article focuses on Simon & Schuster Canada's domestic publishing program. It is noted that willingness to go toe-to-toe against its biggest Canadian competitors has been already shown by Simon & Scuster. It is stated that a mix of overtly commercial and literary fare among the more than 2,000 titles it releases each year is published by Simon & Schuster's U.S. division.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the previous issues. Assessment of the Court ruling on former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's mismanagement with official records; "Capitalism and Housework," by Anne Colamosca published in the March 29 issue; "Washington Diarist," published in the March 29 issue; "Time for Controls?," published in the February 23 issue.

The article offers information on the survey related to the earning and job satisfaction in the book industry. It states that the survey revealed that 75 percent of the publishing workforce is female, but only 52 percent of senior management roles are held by women. It mentions that the salaries have stagnated, with the average annual income of 48,300 dollars having increased by only 2.3 percent over the past five years, despite the fact that other demographic factors have remained constant.

The article offers information on printing presses and their owners which will participate in the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF). It states that Annie Koyama, who founded the company Koyama Press, has released around 35 titles. It mentions that the company Conundrum Press has been in the graphic novel business for the past ten years. It highlights that Top Shelf LLC will spotlight six authors in TCAF.

The article reports that increasing number of authors are turning to freelance editors to get their editorial work done. It states that as editors of in-house publishers are pressed with time constraints, increasing number of authors are paying for freelance editors for editorial services and mentions that several freelancers are admitting the boom in this trend. Veteran freelancer Rosemary Shipton asserts that freelance editors are receiving large amount of work from authors.

The article offers information related to having documents and images of Canada's heritage online. The Whitby Archives, Ontario's new central library branch, provides digitial copies of historic photographs in the collection of local historical documents and by doing so, Whitby allows history to be accessed by many people. Librarians and archivists digitization relevant to students who turn to the Internet for their research needs. It discusses factors such as what and how much to digitize.

ABSTRACTAcanthamoeba castellaniiis a ubiquitous free-living amoeba with a worldwide distribution that can occasionally infect humans, causing particularly severe infections in immunocompromised individuals. Dissecting the immunology of Acanthamoebainfections has been considered problematic due to the very low incidence of disease, despite the high exposure rates. While macrophages are acknowledged as playing a significant role in Acanthamoebainfections, little is known about how this facultative parasite influences macrophage activity. Therefore, in this study we investigated the effects of Acanthamoebaon the activation of resting macrophages. Consequently, murine bone marrow-derived macrophages were cocultured with trophozoites of either the laboratory Neff strain or a clinical isolate of A. castellanii. In vitroreal-time imaging demonstrated that trophozoites of both strains often established evanescent contact with macrophages. Both Acanthamoebastrains induced a proinflammatory macrophage phenotype characterized by the significant production of interleukin-12 (IL-12) and IL-6. However, macrophages cocultured with the clinical isolate of Acanthamoebaproduced significantly less IL-12 and IL-6 than the Neff strain. The utilization of macrophages derived from MyD88-, TRIF-, Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2)-, TLR4-, and TLR2/4-deficient mice indicated that Acanthamoeba-induced proinflammatory cytokine production was through MyD88-dependent, TRIF-independent, TLR4-induced events. This study shows for the first time the involvement of TLRs expressed on macrophages in the recognition of and response to Acanthamoebatrophozoites.

The article presents an interview with George Fetherling, a poet, novelist, journalist, and publisher, who talks about his books and other works. He says that his handwritten journals, published in the form of the book "The Writing Life," is simply uniformity of one person's voice. He says that this book deals with a couple of generations' worth of writers, publishers, editors, and other literary types. He says that people may call him successful, but he never made much money.

The article focuses on how after the collapse of a publisher, book authors struggle to regain the control of their work and sell them, with reference to the bankruptcy of distributor H.B. Fenn & Co. Ltd. which housed the inventory of Key Porter Books Ltd. The books were H.B. Fenn's assets and the representatives approached the authors to buy back books. Authors like Kevin Sylvester says that buying back is really frustrating for them, especially when they never received royalties for the books.

The article offers information on a dispute between the company Access Copyright and postsecondary institutions in Canada over licensing fees. It informs that the dispute emphasizes on how to compensate creators for the use of their works in Canadian libraries and lecture halls. It further tells that many universities are involved in the dispute including the University of Windsor, Acadia University, and the University of Manitoba.

The article discusses the aspects of the Canadian publishing company's regulation on the importations of books. According to Canadian Booksellers Association board of director James Moore, the regulations forbids booksellers from purchasing around the Canadian supply chain. Moreover, the restrictions on parallel importations were created to assure that the prices of book in Canada remain in line those in the U.S.

The article presents three different interviews of various librarians in Canada. These include Catherine Baird, marketing, communications, and outreach librarian at McMaster University, Kirsten Andersen who was a teen services librarian at the Greater Victoria Public Library, and Mita Williams, a user interface and user experience librarian at the University of Windsor's Leddy Library. It notes that all of them discusses the new and evolving fields in librarianship.

The article focuses on the uncertainty of many author's in settling on massive digitalization project offered by Google Inc. According to novelist Susan Swan the settlement could be desirable or could be a great loss. Moreover, Roanie Levy, Access Copyright's director of legal affairs, although settlement benefits a lot to many authors, still, more administrative work will require.

The article focuses on the measures taken by Jack Illingworth as an executive director of the Literary Press Group to rejuvenate the organisation. After joining the organization, his first task was tackling the backlog of paperwork and other administrative duties. It is stated that the rejuvenation plan may offer a chance for the group to rethink its key services, including its sales and marketing campaigns, its advocacy for small presses, and the workings of its distribution arm, LitDistCo.

The article presents the author's comments on the consequences of smaller, smarter, less expensive events on the BookExpo Canada (BEC). It is stated that the demise of BEC is affecting the Canadian Booksellers Association which is most closely linked to BEC. Publishers with much bigger lists, meanwhile, are looking at other ways of spending the money that would have gone into exhibiting at BEC.

The article shares the views of several people including Selina Rajani and Doug Pepper, who belong to the book publishing industry, on achieving success. As believed, achieving success in book business has no guarantees, but citing the example of Rajani, it illustrates how she achieved success from a low-rung position to a senior publicist at Raincoast Books. According to Pepper, publisher of McClelland & Stewart Ltd., forming friendship with influential people is an important survival tactic.

The article focuses on how provincial education ministries in Canada competes with publishers in digital publishing. It states that the advantages of electronic books and learning go beyond easing the back pain of students and that this trend is said to have made traditional educational publishers come up with a new model of business. However, according to publishers, the programs of education ministries to bring digital content to the classroom undermined their own efforts at digitization.

The article focuses on the views of Joseph Heath, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, on the factors that led to the current economic downturn. Heath says that overweening welfare state and rampant deregulation of the financial sector are two main factors that led to the current situation. He says that banks lent billions of dollars to people who had no ability of repaying it and also hedged their investments in mortgage-backed securities.

The article reports on the decrease of book prices in Canada. According to a report of May BookManager, the average markup on titles imported from the U.S. is coming down across the board. More than half of suppliers are showing an average spread of less than 10%. While some publishers are further ahead than others, the net effect is that prices are still sinking in stores.

The article offers information regarding the concerns of Canadian publishers raised over digital books. It refers to a publishing company Goose Lane Editions and states that president and publisher Susanne Alexander's comments on caution needed in changing its audiobooks to digital books. It also refers to the concerns of libraries in the above mentioned context. INSET: Audiobooks and the virtual library.

The article deliberates over the impact of the rise in the value of the Canadian dollar in September 2007 over the book industry in Canada. The rise set off an industry-wide public relations and sales crisis. In response to the sales crisis, some offered at-par prices on dual-priced titles, while some offered a 10% or 15% discount. Meanwhile, importers and exporters engaged in business with the U.S. are struggling to determine optimal pricing strategies. INSET: Pricing for America.

The article provides information concerning the life and works of writer Shauna Singh Baldwin in Canada. The author infers that Baldwin knows from experience the importance of finding the right publisher. The author adds that Baldwin is by no means alone in making the seemingly counterintuitive move from major publisher to small press.

The article discusses implications of selling of major Canadian publishing house to foreign investors on the book trade. Topics discussed include passing of ownership of McClelland & Stewart to German multinational Bertelsmann, sale of Harlequin to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and impact of the sale of Harlequin in Canada, which will now become a division of News Corp.-owned HarperCollins.

The article presents the author's comments on an agreement, named agency lite by the Competition Bureau of Canada, which requires four of the largest publishing houses operating in the country to renegotiate their contracts with ebook vendors, effectively giving retailers discretion to offer steep discounts. Agency Lite also prohibits publishers from setting retail prices, says the author.

The article focuses on the National Forum on the Literary Arts organized by the Canada Council for the Arts on February 14, 2014 in Montreal. It is noted that four themes including creation, publication/production, "dissemination" and sustainability were the focus of the forum. It is mentioned that 23 "priorities" for sustainability were discussed including the need for project-oriented grants.

The article presents the author's comments on The Writers' Union of Canada's (TWUC) consideration on opening ranks to self-published authors.

The author offers his views whether there is still room for a new book fair in Canada following the announcement of the Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair to be held from November 13-16, 2013. He is not surprised that the proposed fair is viewed by the publishing executives with skepticism given the failure of the BookExpo Canada after a decline in its importance as a sales platform for independent bookstores and libraries.

The article presents information on the International Visitors Program, an important event for the book trade in Canada. It is noted that Ursula Mackenzie, CEO of Little, Brown Book Group Ltd., gave a keynote lecture arguing that the transition to digital has been embraced by the publishing industry with notable success.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics such as the new novel "Extraordinary," by David Gilmour and the media firmament of Canada.

The article presents author's views on the restrictions to be made on the discounts offered by retailers for consumers on new books. He discusses several facts which includes debates related to the payment made by consumers on new books, steep discounts on a narrow range of bestsellers offered by retailers and decrease in household spending on books.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including salary survey and online storytelling.

The article focuses on Canadian book publishing companies Simon & Schuster Inc. and McArthur & Co. It states that the New York City-based publishing company Simon & Schuster has launched its service in the country in 2002 and limits its activities to sales and markeing in order to comply with the Investment Canada Act. It notes that the Canadian-owned publisher McArthur & Co. was established in 1998 and supports its domestic publishing program through importing foreign titles to the country.

The article reports on the plan of the Oxford University Press (OUP) to shutter its trade publishing division in Canada. It states that OUP Canada publishes only about a dozen books a year intended for a general readership and just four positions in the trade division will be eliminated. It notes that McGill-Queen's University Press executive director Philip Cercone was worried on OUP's decision to end its trade presence in Canada.

The article presents an obituary for Susan Lawrence, former editor at the magazine "Quill & QUire."

The article offers news briefs as of March 2013 on topics including the appointment of Don Sedgwick as executive director of the Master of Fine Arts, the rebranding plan of the University of Regina, and the move of Toronto's Transatlantic Literary Agency to rebrand as the Transatlantic Agency.

The article presents the author's insights on the U.S. distribution of a distinctively Canadian book wrote by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He thinks that the decision to forego the Canadian sector is surprising, citing that the Canadian book did editorial work and book deals moved through New York. He mentions that according to Harper's agent, Michael Levin, Harper acts like a private citizen and does not make a political decision in the choice of the publisher.

The article announces that Mary Osborne was named executive director at the Writer's Trust of Canada and that Kate Walker is retiring from Ampersand Canada's Book and Gift Agency.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several issues that the journal will be following including D&M Publishers Inc.'s creditor protection filing, the business performance of Canadian booksellers, and the merger of Penguin and Random House.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses the sudden restructuring of Vancouver, British Columbia-based D&M Publishers Inc.