While 2011 has been declared Year of the Short Story, Sept. 26 could have been named D.W. Wilson Day. Wilson’s story, “The Dead Roads,” won him the BBC National Short Story Award and a sizeable ... Read More »
September 29, 2011
HarperCollins Canada is using new technology that appears to bring elements of a book magically to life to promote YA novelist Kenneth Oppel’s latest title, This Dark Endeavour: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. Called augmentedthis-dark-endeavour-to-life/> ... Read More »
September 29, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
After existing for months in a kind of legal limbo, Key Porter Books has officially declared bankruptcy. According to documents obtained from the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy Canada, Key Porter filed for bankruptcy ... Read More »
September 29, 2011
Random House of Canada has hired Robert Wheaton in the newly created role of vice-president and director of strategic digital business development, effective Oct. 17. He will report to president and CEO Brad Martin. Wheaton ... Read More »
September 29, 2011
Carousel Bookstore in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, was set to close at the end of August, but an eleventh-hour offer has brought it back from the brink. Just days after Q&Q pointed to a news report ... Read More »
September 29, 2011
Andrea Magyar, publishing director at Penguin Group Canada, has acquired The Loyalty Leap: Turning Customer Information into Customer Intimacy by Bryan Pearson. In the book, Pearson, president of Toronto-based LoyaltyOne, expounds on how to build ... Read More »
September 28, 2011
Kelvin Kong has returned to The Rights Factory as foreign rights manager after a stint as rights associate at Kids Can Press. Kong had worked as foreign rights associate at TRF from 2009–2010 and as ... Read More »
September 28, 2011
Ten years ago, Montreal street artist Peter Gibson, a.k.a. Roadsworth, was sneaking out in the middle of the night with an arsenal of spray paint and stencils to turn public spaces into playful works of ... Read More »
September 26, 2011
BookNet Canada, the not-for-profit agency dedicated to promoting innovation in the Canadian supply chain, will start tracking e-book sales in addition to print book sales by the end of the year. BookNet has tracked sales ... Read More »
September 26, 2011
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