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
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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.7 Over brandy and cigars, Rimstead put a spin on the reasons for the giant sale. Hoping to counter the Ryerson image of stuffiness, Clark explained, "We're trying to bring new verve to the publishing industry in Canada." Arnold Edinborough, the former editor of Satulrday Night, listened sympathetically and criticized the book stores. "Don't they realize bookselling is merchandising, or are they going to go on in the old medieval way?"S Then the pice de risistance was brought out: the Ryerson Bookworm. This dish turned out to be Linda Weatherton, a graduate of Carleton University's journalism school, hired to make publicity appearances around Toronto: "She's the best-looking bookworm you ever saw," Rimstead
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".