by Becky Robertson

Greystone acquires book on killer whale, Moby Doll

Greystone Books has acquired world rights to Moby Doll: The Killer Whale That Changed the World by Victoria, B.C., journalist and filmmaker Mark Leiren-Young. The tale of the B.C. orca, which will publish in partnership ... Read More »

December 14, 2015

UBC Press acquires Purich Publishing

By Becky Robertson

University of British Columbia Press has announced the acquisition of Purish Publishing, the aboriginal law, social justice, and western Canadian-focused press, effective Dec. 1, 2015. The press was founded in 1992 by lawyers Don Purich ... Read More »

December 14, 2015

Barbara Reid named honorary chair of Family Literacy Day 2016

By Becky Robertson

Toronto-based plasticine artist and picture-book creator Barbara Reid has been chosen as the honorary chair of next year's family literacy day. Founded by non-profit ABC Life Literacy Canada, the Jan. 27 event aims to promote ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Deals

First Book Canada donates one millionth book of 2015

By Becky Robertson

First Book Canada, the non-profit literacy organization, donated its one millionth book of the year at a special reading celebration in partnership with Corus Entertainment on Dec. 14. A second grade student from Toronto was ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: The Force is strong in this marketing machine; homeless man writes bestseller; how the book industry invented holiday shopping

By Becky Robertson

Retroactive backstory almost ruined Star Wars (Lit Reactor) ... ... but creating a "forever" franchise is good marketing. (Publishing Perspectives) Homeless man writes a bestseller about his life on the streets. (The Telegraph) Salman Rushdie ... Read More »

December 14, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Ashley Spires’ The Most Magnificent Thing marks 100,000 copies sold

By Becky Robertson

Toronto's Kids Can Press has announced the sale of more than 100,000 copies of B.C.-based picture-book author Ashley Spires' The Most Magnificent Thing since the title's publication in April 2014. The inspirational story follows a ... Read More »

December 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book news

Book Links: Iceland, arguably the most literary country; Kobo takes over Flipkart; books are longer than they used to be

By Becky Robertson

The vice-director of the Icelandic Publishing Association on the annual "Christmas book flood" in s country where one in ten residents will publish a book in their lifetime. (2Seas) A new study finds that books ... Read More »

December 11, 2015 | Filed under: Book links

Invisible Publishing acquires new fiction by Andrew Kaufman

By Becky Robertson

Invisible Publishing co-publisher Leigh Nash has acquired Small Claims, the latest novel by Andrew Kaufman, author of All My Friends are Superheroes. The book is based on Andrew Petty's justice columns in Hazlitt, and is scheduled ... Read More »

December 10, 2015

Retired bookseller Chuck Erion builds a room of one’s own for author Erin Bow

By Becky Robertson

Former bookseller Chuck Erion, who co-founded Waterloo, Ontario's Words Worth Books and now spends his time primarily on woodworking, recently took on a new literary-related project in his retirement: a personalized writer's studio for Sorrow's ... Read More »

December 10, 2015

Q&A: Poet and artist Melanie Janisse Barlow on her series of poet paintings

By Becky Robertson

Windsor, Ontario–based visual artist Melanie Janisse Barlow has embarked on a long-term project to archive living North American poets through painted portraiture. The Poets Series, which Barlow launched on Kickstarter, began with a crowd-sourced selection ... Read More »

December 10, 2015

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Greystone acquires book on killer whale, Moby Doll

UBC Press acquires Purich Publishing

Barbara Reid named honorary chair of Family Literacy Day 2016

First Book Canada donates one millionth book of 2015

Book Links: The Force is strong in this marketing machine; homeless man writes bestseller; how the book industry invented holiday shopping

Ashley Spires’ The Most Magnificent Thing marks 100,000 copies sold

Book Links: Iceland, arguably the most literary country; Kobo takes over Flipkart; books are longer than they used to be

Invisible Publishing acquires new fiction by Andrew Kaufman

Retired bookseller Chuck Erion builds a room of one’s own for author Erin Bow

Q&A: Poet and artist Melanie Janisse Barlow on her series of poet paintings

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