by Cassandra Drudi

Rights Deals: Matt James, Michael Hill + three more

Holiday House/Porter’s Neal Porter has acquired world rights to Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author-illustrator Matt James’s Tadpoles. The picture book is described as the story of a father and son's walk to an ephemeral pond ... Read More »

March 25, 2021

Sales double for Saskatoon indie bookseller during pandemic

By Cassandra Drudi

A Saskatoon independent bookseller credits the COVID-19 pandemic’s shakeup of retail habits with turning his business around and doubling sales in 2020. Peter Garden, the owner of alternative bookstore Turning the Tide in the city’s ... Read More »

March 25, 2021

Distribution change: Flamingo Rampant

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers will begin distribution and sales representation of Flamingo Rampant books to the trade in Canada and the U.S. as of April 1. Flamingo Rampant was founded by S. Bear Bergman in 2011 ... Read More »

March 24, 2021

Rights Deals: Peter Goddard + Kyle Edwards

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi’s Douglas Richmond has acquired world rights to Canadian music critic and journalist Peter Goddard’s My Private Rock ’n’ Roll. The memoir is described as a look back at Goddard’s haunts and their ... Read More »

March 22, 2021

Shop Local button connects readers to indie bookstores with a click

By Cassandra Drudi

A new initiative aims to make it easier for Canadian readers to shop at their local bookstores. The Shop Local button, which Bookmanager is formally launching later this month, shows readers which local independents ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Rights Deals: Debra Thompson, Wab Kinew + 11 more

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing’s managing editor Whitney Moran has acquired North American English and French rights to community leader and citizen activist Stephen Dorsey’s Black and White: An Intimate, Multicultural Take on “White Advantage” and the Paths ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Address and distribution changes: University of Alberta Press

By Cassandra Drudi

The University of Alberta Press has moved to: 1-16 Rutherford Library South 11204 89 Ave NW Edmonton AB T6G 2J4 UAlberta Press has a new audio distribution partnership with ECW Press. Questions about the press's ... Read More »

March 18, 2021

Rights Deals: Joe Schwarcz, Brian Martin + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Jack David has acquired world rights to Joe Schwarcz’s Science Goes Viral. The popular science title is described as demystifying the facts around COVID-19 and highlighting important science marching on in other areas. ... Read More »

March 15, 2021

Distribution change: Inhabit Media

By Cassandra Drudi

Orca Book Publishers will be taking on Canadian distribution and sales representation of Inhabit ... Read More »

March 15, 2021

Rights Deals: Joanna Chiu, Janice Lynn Mather + 8 more

By Cassandra Drudi

House of Anansi has acquired world rights to Toronto Star journalist and winner of the 2012 Human Rights Press Award Joanna Chiu’s China Unbound: A New World Disorder. The nonfiction book is described as tracking ... Read More »

March 11, 2021

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Rights Deals: Matt James, Michael Hill + three more

Sales double for Saskatoon indie bookseller during pandemic

Distribution change: Flamingo Rampant

Rights Deals: Peter Goddard + Kyle Edwards

Shop Local button connects readers to indie bookstores with a click

Rights Deals: Debra Thompson, Wab Kinew + 11 more

Address and distribution changes: University of Alberta Press

Rights Deals: Joe Schwarcz, Brian Martin + two more

Distribution change: Inhabit Media

Rights Deals: Joanna Chiu, Janice Lynn Mather + 8 more

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