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Q&Q staff share their summer reading lists

ALISON JONES, PUBLISHER Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths, Nancy Marie Brown (Palgrave Macmillan) Among the many gaps in my knowledge is the fact that I have never read the Norse ... Read More »

June 30, 2014 | Filed under: Book culture

Tinlids takes over Forest of Reading contract

By Julie Baldassi

The Ontario Library Association has awarded the lucrative Forest of Reading distribution contract to a new company, the Toronto-based children’s and YA book wholesaler Tinlids. The deal marks a departure from its former wholesaler S&B ... Read More »

June 26, 2014

Deals: Emily Schultz lands two-book deal with Doubleday Canada; Tundra acquires Vikki VanSickle picture book; and more

By Julie Baldassi

Doubleday Canada publishing director Lynn Henry has acquired Canadian English-language rights to two books by Emily Schultz. Men Walking on Water, set in the Prohibition-era Detroit-Windsor corridor and loosely based on the author’s family, will be published in spring ... Read More »

June 26, 2014

Toronto Star donates a century’s worth of photographs to Toronto Public Library

By Julie Baldassi

Toronto Public Library has unveiled a massive new photo archive donated by Toronto Star. The archive, which consists of more than 1 million print photographs taken from 1900 to 1999, is held at the Toronto Reference Library ... Read More »

June 25, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

By Julie Baldassi

Lydia Moëd has joined The Rights Factory as foreign rights associate. Before moving to Canada, Moëd sold foreign rights for U.K. publishers including Usborne Publishing and Elwin Street Productions. She has also worked as a ... Read More »

June 25, 2014

Hachette Book Group acquires Perseus Books Group

By Julie Baldassi

Publishers Lunch is reporting that Hachette Book Group has acquired the publishing and distribution company Perseus Books Group in “an unusual three-way transaction,” with a formal announcement expected from Hachette later today. According to Publishers Lunch: ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book news

Dany Laferriere wins 2014 International Literature Award

By Julie Baldassi

Germany’s International Literature Award (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) has been awarded to Canadian author Dany Laferrière and translator Beate Thill for Das Rätsel der Rückkehr, which appeared as The Return (Douglas & McIntyre) in 2011. (The novel was first published ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers

By Julie Baldassi

Tamai Kobayashi was awarded The Writer’s Trust of Canada’s $4,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers yesterday at a ceremony hosted by NOW magazine editor Susan G. Cole. Honours of distinction went to Rae Spoon ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Amazon controversy hits Europe, hashtags in book marketing, and more

By Julie Baldassi

The latest on Amazon: the online retailer presses for new terms with publishers in the U.K.; German trade association files a complaint; MobyLives sums up the ongoing controversy The case of #Girlboss: book marketing in the ... Read More »

June 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Orca’s world of change

By Julie Baldassi

The Victoria press has emerged as a leading publisher for the North American school and library markets – but that’s not its only strength This fall, Orca Book Publishers will release sequels to Seven: ... Read More »

June 23, 2014

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Q&Q staff share their summer reading lists

Tinlids takes over Forest of Reading contract

Deals: Emily Schultz lands two-book deal with Doubleday Canada; Tundra acquires Vikki VanSickle picture book; and more

Toronto Star donates a century’s worth of photographs to Toronto Public Library

Personnel changes: The Rights Factory

Hachette Book Group acquires Perseus Books Group

Dany Laferriere wins 2014 International Literature Award

Tamai Kobayashi wins 2014 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers

Amazon controversy hits Europe, hashtags in book marketing, and more

Orca’s world of change

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