War Of Words

    An excerpt from EGO AND INK: The Inside Story of Canada's National Newspaper War

    Chris Cobb ’s widely-praised new book Ego And Ink chronicles the creation and launch of Conrad Black’s National Post and the subsequent vicious newspaper war in Canada between the Post, the venerable Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star.

           Ego and Ink          Chris Cobb           Download (Pdf, 835KB)

Ego And Ink details a circulation battle in which millions of newspapers were either given away or sold well below cost in cut price subscription deals. Together, it cost the three newspapers more than $1 billion to articifially inflate their circulation figures.

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