Quill & Quire
Quill & Quire is a Canadian magazine about books and the publishing industry. It started in 1935 in Toronto. The print edition is now online only, with about 5,000 copies per issue and around 25,000 readers.
The magazine originally focused on office supplies, but books gained importance as Canada’s book publishing grew. Quill & Quire reviews books and magazines and discusses industry trends, and it is known for short reviews of new Canadian titles.
In 1971 Michael de Pencier bought the magazine. It stayed with his group for about 30 years until 2003, when it was sold to St. Joseph Communications, a Canadian printing and media company.
A major redesign happened in 2006 under publisher Alison Jones, editor Derek Weiler, and art director Gary Campbell. They switched to 100% recycled paper, reduced the size from 11x14 inches to a standard magazine size, and printed in color for the first time. The January 2006 issue featured Douglas Coupland on the cover. Rod McDonald created a new logo and designed two typefaces, Laurentian and Slate, for the magazine.
Editor-in-chief Derek Weiler died in 2009. Current staff includes editor-in-chief Sue Carter Flinn, review editor Steven Beattie, and Books for Young People editor Dory Cerny. The publisher is Alison Jones and associate publisher Attila Berki. Athena St. Jacques is the art director, Caroline Potter the production manager, and Larry Wyatt handles consumer marketing.
Quill & Quire launched its first website in early 2004 as a member-based online companion to the magazine, with a paywall. It replaced a weekly PDF newsletter and included an archive of Canadian reviews back to 1996. In 2007 it added a daily blog outside the paywall, and in 2010 the site was redesigned. In 2011 the site added social media and a global comment system and won several COPA awards, including gold for best news coverage and silver for website of the year.
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