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Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
The ''Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia'' is a two volume encyclopedia of Canadian pop music, available in hardcover and online, detailing Canadian music from 1949 onwards. History The ''Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia'' was started by Jaimie Vernon on July 1, 1998, as an online service of the ''Toronto Sun'' newspaper website CANOE. Vernon had been advised by music journalist John Sakamoto that the ''Toronto Sun'' had licensed a music encyclopedia, but that the company was not satisfied with it. They hired Vernon to write a new online edition in 1998.Lenny StouteJaimie Vernon and The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502033002/http://www.cashboxcanada.ca/2036/jaimie-vernon-and-canadian-pop-music-encyclopedia , date=2014-05-02 . Cashbox, August 12, 2011. Retrieved 2013-05-15. The encyclopedia was originally based on Vernon's association with independent Canadian label Bullseye Records, established by Vernon in 1985,Bob SegariniJamie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |