What’s the retail mark-up on a forty-dollar book? How much does it cost the publisher to manufacture it? And what does the writer make if it becomes a best-seller? Editor, publisher and writer John Macfarlane talks about the economics of writing and publishing books north of the 49th parallel. His address will be followed by the presentation of the following awards:
$10,000 Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize Finalists: Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land: A Prairie Passage; Irena F. Karafilly, The Stranger in the Plumed Hat; A.B. McKillop, The Spinster & The Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past
$10,000 Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize Finalists: Donald Harman Akenson, Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus; Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the World; Taras Grescoe, Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec; Erna Paris, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History; John Stackhouse, Out of Poverty: and into something more comfortable
$10,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Finalists: Todd Babiak, Choke Hold; Lynn Coady, Play the Monster Blind; Douglas Glover, 16 Categories of Desire; Helen Humphreys, afterimage; Michael Winter, This All Happened
