There are a few hundred book publishers in Canada, most of them producing between one and fifteen books a year. Few of us ever get to see publishers’ whole lists and only some of us get to see their catalogues (which are usually distributed to bookstores and libraries). But what better way to test the temper of the times, than by looking at how publishers present themselves and their products to that amorphous entity, the Market? Here are some of the notes generated by a headlong rush through a random pull from the fall lists.