by Julie Baldassi

Inaugural Toronto International Book Fair promises big-name authors and diverse programming

Sitting in a boardroom with the organizers of Inspire! Toronto International Book Fair, the amount of hard work and enthusiasm that has gone into planning the inaugural event is palpable. The group erupts into excited ... Read More »

November 10, 2014

Lemony Snicket on Netflix, Penguin Random House consolidates offices in Europe, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Netflix has secured rights to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Penguin Random House to close offices in France and Germany The Giving Tree turns 50 The Economist weighs in on the future of the book "Two ... Read More »

November 6, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Deals round-up: Greystone acquires book based on future of bees doc; John Stackhouse to pen two books; and more

By Julie Baldassi

Knopf Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired English- and French-language North American rights to two books by former Globe and Mail editor-in-chief John Stackhouse. Off the Record, exploring the challenges of creating journalism ... Read More »

November 6, 2014

How HarperCollins Canada distribution change impacts Canadian publishers

By Julie Baldassi

Yesterday's announcement that HarperCollins Canada is shuttering its Canadian distribution warehouse in Scarborough came as a surprise to many in the publishing industry – including HarperCollins Canada’s distribution clients, who will now have to find a ... Read More »

November 5, 2014

Carolyn Forde sells U.S. rights to Padma Viswanathan’s Giller-nominated novel, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Douglas & McIntyre managing editor Anna Comfort-O’Keefe has acquired Canadian English-language rights to Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel The Heaviness of Things that Float about a nurse who has spent the last 40 years living by herself ... Read More »

November 5, 2014

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

By Julie Baldassi

Natalie Kimber has joined The Rights Factory as associate agent in New York City. Kimber brings her list from her self-started Sun ... Read More »

November 5, 2014

Distribution change: Breakwater Books

By Julie Baldassi

Effective Nov. 15, Breakwater Books will be distributed in Canada (excluding Newfoundland) ... Read More »

November 5, 2014

Miriam Toews takes the 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

By Julie Baldassi

Miriam Toews has won the 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada), her critically lauded sixth novel. The Manitoba-born author was awarded $25,000 at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Studio Tuesday evening. ... Read More »

November 5, 2014

HarperCollins Canada moves distribution to U.S., lays off president and CEO David Kent

By Julie Baldassi

HarperCollins announced today it is letting go HarperCollins Canada president and CEO David Kent in a wave of “consolidation” that will see the firm’s Canadian distribution operation outsourced to RR Donnelley’s warehouse in Plainfield, Indiana, ... Read More »

November 4, 2014

Tom Hanks is writing a book about his typewriters, alt lit is dead, and more

By Julie Baldassi

Tom Hanks signs with Knopf for story collection inspired by his typewriter collection Guillaume Morissette on the demise of a literary movement The Believer profiles late poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron Taylor Swift's 1989 as the soundtrack for YA books ... Read More »

November 4, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

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Inaugural Toronto International Book Fair promises big-name authors and diverse programming

Lemony Snicket on Netflix, Penguin Random House consolidates offices in Europe, and more

Deals round-up: Greystone acquires book based on future of bees doc; John Stackhouse to pen two books; and more

How HarperCollins Canada distribution change impacts Canadian publishers

Carolyn Forde sells U.S. rights to Padma Viswanathan’s Giller-nominated novel, and more

Personnel change: The Rights Factory

Distribution change: Breakwater Books

Miriam Toews takes the 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

HarperCollins Canada moves distribution to U.S., lays off president and CEO David Kent

Tom Hanks is writing a book about his typewriters, alt lit is dead, and more

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