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Emma Donoghue doubles up at CBA Libris Awards

The Canadian Booksellers Association handed out its Libris Awards on Saturday as part of its three-day national conference in Toronto. The winners are as follows: Author of the Year: Emma Donoghue Fiction Book of the ... Read More »

May 16, 2011

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian trade paper fiction

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This week’s bestsellers list features the top Canadian trade paperback fiction titles for the two weeks ending May 8, 2011. 1. Water for Elephants (movie tie-in edition), Sara Gruen (HarperCollins Canada, $16.50 pa, 9781443406284) 2. ... Read More »

May 16, 2011

E-book buzz buoys CBA conference, despite low bookseller turnout

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The third instalment of the Canadian Booksellers Association’s national conference wrapped up in Toronto over the weekend, and many attendees are reporting an upbeat vibe and positive energy despite a decline in bookseller attendance. A ... Read More »

May 16, 2011

Toronto lit-punk icon Daniel Jones finds new audiences with reissued titles

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When he was alive, Daniel Jones had a small but hardcore following. Now, 17 years after his death from suicide, the Toronto literary and punk icon is being celebrated with reissues of two out-of-print titles. ... Read More »

May 16, 2011

Ezra Levant wins National Business Book Award

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Controversial Sun Media talk-show host, journalist, and lawyer Ezra Levant has won the National Business Book Award for Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands (McClelland & Stewart). The $20,000 prize celebrates Canadian business ... Read More »

May 12, 2011

CBA partners with Transcontinental to deliver e-book solutions to indie bookstores

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In advance of its national conference this weekend in Toronto, the Canadian Booksellers Association is preparing to make a pair of technology-related announcements that organizers say will bring independent booksellers into the e-book game. Earlier ... Read More »

May 12, 2011

Designer Glenn Goluska receives Alcuin’s lifetime achievement award

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Glenn Goluska has been awarded the Robert R. Reid Award and Medal for lifetime achievement in book arts by Vancouver’s Alcuin Society. Goluska is a typographer, letterpress printer, and book designer for Imprierie Dromadaire in ... Read More »

May 12, 2011

Forest of Reading Award winners announced

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The Ontario Library Association and the Authors at Harbourfront Centre have announced the winners of the 2011 Forest of Reading Awards for the top Canadian kids’ books of the year, as voted by young readers. ... Read More »

May 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian customs seizes “obscene” comics

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No superheroes came to the rescue of two U.S. comic publishers who had their books confiscated by Canadian customs officers on suspicion of obscenity. On May 6, Tom Neely and Dylan Williams’ rental car was ... Read More »

May 12, 2011

Deals: ECW acquires Douglas Gibson memoir, and more

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ECW Press co-publisher Jack David has acquired Douglas Gibson’s memoir Stories About Storytellers: Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and Others. The book follows the former McClelland & Stewart publisher and president ... Read More »

May 12, 2011

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Emma Donoghue doubles up at CBA Libris Awards

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian trade paper fiction

E-book buzz buoys CBA conference, despite low bookseller turnout

Toronto lit-punk icon Daniel Jones finds new audiences with reissued titles

Ezra Levant wins National Business Book Award

CBA partners with Transcontinental to deliver e-book solutions to indie bookstores

Designer Glenn Goluska receives Alcuin’s lifetime achievement award

Forest of Reading Award winners announced

Canadian customs seizes “obscene” comics

Deals: ECW acquires Douglas Gibson memoir, and more

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