The Sale of Ryerson Press: The End of the Old Agency System and Conflicts over Domestic and Foreign Ownership in the Canadian Publishing Industry, 1970-1986
Notice bibliographique
Résumé
A Bookworm at the "World's Biggest Book Sale"In an uncharacteristic but symbolic meeting between hockey culture and book culture at Varsity Arena in Toronto during a sweltering week in June 1970, The Ryerson Press offered its backlog of over 600,000 books to the public.Billed as the "world's biggest book sale," the paperbacks and hard covers were stacked on rows of long folding tables, and went for prices between 254 and $3.00.While much of the stock consisted of recent titles from Ryerson and what looked like whole seasons of titles from several of its foreign principals, there were some rare finds for Canadiana buffs like myself, who picked up Selected Poems of Dorothy Livesay [If 26-I956] (I9 57) .On opening day> I3 June, thousands of people tramped through the arena seeking bargains, and so much was picked over through the following week that the planrned ten-day event actually closed a day early.The proceedings were orchestrated with far more hoopla than a similar "bagels and coffee" sale of books by McClelland and Stewart at the St Lawrence Market in June of 1969.That event only had 200,000 books to unload, and lured the public with the presence of Pierre Berton and Leonard Cohen.Both sales were symptomatic of major management and cash-flow problems among Canada's lar-gest houses, and a sad contrast to Ryerson's Centennial exhibit that opened on 26 June 1967 at the Royal Ontario Museum, less than a block away from Varsity Arena.At that exhibit, entitled Canadian 1 This paper is an excerpt fr•om a longer version that will be a chapter in my work in progress on the Toronto publishing industry in the twentieth century. 2 George Parker taught English at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario.He published The Beginnings ofthe Book Trade in Canada (1985), and he is a contributor to all three volumes of the History of the Book in Canada Proj ect.Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 40/2 book sale at Varsity Arena reached Toronto booksellers, they reacted furiously with phone calls and letters, and threatened to boycott Ryerson.The Canadian Retail Booksellers' Association fired off indignant letters to the firm.These were not idle threats; the retail chain Coles refused to order books from McClelland and Stewart after its book sale at St Lawrence Centre.Retailers wondered whether publishers' sales of overstock were a harbinger of direct retailing.Sometimes damage control causes more damage.Clark and Farr held a dinner party at the Royal York on 29 May, hoping at this occasion to assuage the retailers, who were allowed to come in two days before the sale and purchase stock.But the retailers' public anger continued, and Rimstead arranged for a small dinner party, this time for the media, at Le Provencal on I June.Reporter Barry Callaghan was greeted by Rimstead, resplendent in a pink shirt and double-breasted gray suit.7Over brandy and cigars, Rimstead put a spin on the reasons for the giant sale.Hoping to counter the Ryerson
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Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,002 | 0,007 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,000 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,000 | 0,000 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,003 | 0,006 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,027 | 0,010 |
| Communication savante | 0,014 | 0,003 |
| Science ouverte | 0,002 | 0,002 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,002 | 0,003 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,030 | 0,002 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».