Effective Jan. 1, 2016, Raincoast Books will serve as Canadian distributor for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to handle sales, ... Read More »
April 27, 2015
Imajin Books founder Cheryl Tardif has acquired Canadian rights to B.C. author Debra Purdy Kong’s mystery title, Dead Man Floating. ... Read More »
April 27, 2015
Michael Ondaatje among authors withdrawing from PEN gala due to award for Charlie Hebdo 2015 Pulitzer Prize jury defends decision to name three finalists instead of two Quebec school-bus driver bans reading on the way ... Read More »
April 27, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Global startup Booktrack, which specializes in enhancing ebooks with movie-style soundtracks, has expanded into Canada with former Kobo director of content acquisition Cameron Drew (who made a move to BitLit last year) and former vice-president ... Read More »
April 23, 2015
ECW Press senior editor Michael Holmes has acquired Canadian rights to a new hockey book by ESPN insider Rob Vollman. Hockey Abstracts 2016, which builds on Vollman's original Hockey Abstracts title, will appear in fall ... Read More »
April 23, 2015
In his more than 25 years in the publishing industry, former Oxford University Press Canada president David Stover, who left the company last year, has always wanted to start a press of his own. In ... Read More »
April 23, 2015
HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired Canadian English-language rights to IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and ReLit Award–longlisted Newfoundland author and actor Joel Thomas Hynes’ third novel, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds ... Read More »
April 22, 2015
The Association of Canadian Publishers has named University of Alberta Press director, eBOUND Canada vice-chair, and former ACP president Linda Cameron the recipient of its President's Award. Cameron will be presented with the prize, honouring ... Read More »
April 22, 2015
In honour of UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day on April 23, University of Toronto Libraries is initiating a social-media contest to encourage discourse about copyright in Canada. From April 20 to 24, readers can ... Read More »
April 22, 2015
Random House Children's Books increases first printing of Dr. Seuss's What Pet Should I Get? to one million BookShout and Cheerios partner to distribute Simon & Schuster ebooks Book about Magna Carta to be distributed ... Read More »
April 22, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
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