McClelland & Stewart publicity and marketing assistant Leah Ringwald is leaving the company. Her last day will be ... Read More »
February 10, 2011
Thomas Allen & Son has hired Catherine Whiteside as its new publicity manager. A former publicist at Random House of Canada, Whiteside is responsible for representing Thomas Allen’s client publishers as well as its domestic ... Read More »
February 10, 2011
With the tenth edition of CBC Radio’s Canada Reads wrapping up Wednesday, winning author Terry Fallis and publisher McClelland & Stewart are welcoming a new potential bestseller. Immediately after the announcement, a sincerely surprised Fallis ... Read More »
February 10, 2011
The Transatlantic Literary Agency has added a new full-time agent to its roster. Meghan Macdonald, who has worked as a freelancer for the agency since fall 2009, now has several titles on offer and is ... Read More »
February 10, 2011
The bankruptcy proceedings initiated last week by H.B. Fenn and Company have left independent booksellers scrambling to source titles from the company’s publisher clients, leaving some booksellers wary they may be underserved for several crucial ... Read More »
February 9, 2011
Thanks to a rise in Kobo eReader and other non-book merchandise sales, Indigo Books & Music is reporting a 14 per cent revenue growth for its third quarter, which ended Jan. 1. In a press ... Read More »
February 9, 2011
Penguin Canada senior editor Nick Garrison has acquired world rights to Bill Gaston’s @font-face { font-family: "MS ??"; }@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times ... Read More »
February 9, 2011 | Filed under: Book news
This week’s bestsellers list, which looks at Canadian non-fiction, contains multiple entries from personal finance guru Gail Vaz-Oxlade (who appears at #1, #6, and #7), dieting guru Tosca Reno (#3, #10, and #19), and hockey ... Read More »
February 7, 2011
When H.B. Fenn and Company initiated bankruptcy proceedings last Thursday, perhaps no one was more surprised than the company’s 40 publisher clients, now left scrambling to retrieve inventory and find alternative distribution. “It came as ... Read More »
February 7, 2011
The nation’s libraries will soon see a significant boost in their Canadian e-book collections. OverDrive, the popular e-book, e-audiobook, and e-content provider used by library systems across North America, will soon distribute titles published by ... Read More »
February 7, 2011
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