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Kids Can debuts Scaredy Squirrel enhanced e-book and iPhone game

Although he might prefer to stay within his comfort zone, Scaredy Squirrel is once again testing boundaries. Kids Can Press announced last week that the first two titles in Mélanie Watt’s best-selling children’s picture book ... Read More »

December 12, 2011

Agio Publishers launches anti-bullying book and enhanced app for kids

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B.C.’s Agio Publishers will launch its first enhanced iPad app for kids at an event in Victoria Monday night. Published in tandem with a hardcover book of the same name, It’s Cool to Be Clever ... Read More »

December 12, 2011

Canadian company to focus on creating textbooks for the iPad

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A trio of Ontario-based firms is joining forces to offer a suite of digital services to textbook publishers in North America. AIC Publishing Services is a limited partnership comprising ArtPlus, a textbook packager that serves ... Read More »

December 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Telling Tales raises $50,000 for Hamilton literacy initiatives

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Telling Tales, the annual kidlit festival in Hamilton, Ontario, has announced that it will donate $14,000, or half the proceeds from its 2011 event (which featured readings by Barbara Reid, Jean Little, and Lesley Livingston), ... Read More »

December 12, 2011

Nora Alleyn, 1933–2011

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Nora Alleyn, who came to literary translation as a second career, brought the work of French Canadian writers and poets to an English-language audience. She died Nov. 13 in Montreal at age 77. A stylish ... Read More »

December 8, 2011

BookNet Canada gets behind new ISBN standards for e-books

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The Book Industry Study Group has released a new policy statement that offers guidelines for standardizing how ISBNs are assigned to digital books. According to the report, print and digital versions of a book should ... Read More »

December 8, 2011

Personnel change: Authors at Harbourfront Centre

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Authors at Harbourfront Centre has appointed A. Charles Baillie as president of its board of directors. Baillie, an Officer of the Order of Canada, is the former chairman and CEO of TD Bank Financial Group ... Read More »

December 8, 2011

Deals: M&S acquires Paul Auster memoir; TV deals for Rupinder Gill and Jennifer Close

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Five Rivers, a publisher in Neustadt, Ontario, has signed speculative fiction writer Susan J. Forest’s short story collection Notice. Comprised of both new and previously published work, the book will appear in 2012. International buy-ins: ... Read More »

December 7, 2011

Distribution Change: Owlkids Books

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Effective Jan. 1, 2012, University of Toronto Press will take over distribution for Owlkids Books from Raincoast Books. UTP will begin accepting returns of Owlkids books as of Jan. 1; Raincoast will accept returns until ... Read More »

December 7, 2011

Personnel changes: Canadian Booksellers Association

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The Canadian Booksellers Association has announced several changes to its board of directors. Current CBA board member Christopher Smith, from Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar in Ottawa, will take over as vice-president from Lee Trentadue, ... Read More »

December 6, 2011

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Kids Can debuts Scaredy Squirrel enhanced e-book and iPhone game

Agio Publishers launches anti-bullying book and enhanced app for kids

Canadian company to focus on creating textbooks for the iPad

Telling Tales raises $50,000 for Hamilton literacy initiatives

Nora Alleyn, 1933–2011

BookNet Canada gets behind new ISBN standards for e-books

Personnel change: Authors at Harbourfront Centre

Deals: M&S acquires Paul Auster memoir; TV deals for Rupinder Gill and Jennifer Close

Distribution Change: Owlkids Books

Personnel changes: Canadian Booksellers Association

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