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Hadley Dyer named new children’s editor at HarperCollins Canada

HarperCollins Canada has hired children’s author Hadley Dyer as the new executive editor for children’s books. Dyer is the author of Johnny Kellock Died Today (HarperCollins Canada), winner of CBC Radio’s Young Canada Reads. She ... Read More »

February 7, 2011

Personnel change: Ryerson Publishing Program

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Ryerson University’s G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education has hired Meg Taylor as academic coordinator of its publishing program. Taylor, who will be working alongside Brad Horning, brings 30 years of experience to the ... Read More »

February 7, 2011

Open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent to Canadian booksellers

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Editors' note: This message ran as a paid advertisement ... Read More »

February 4, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

H.B. Fenn restructuring takes industry by surprise

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H.B. Fenn and Company, Canada’s largest book distributor and owner of Key Porter Books, has initiated bankruptcy proceedings. According to a press release sent out this afternoon, the company “today filed a Notice of Intention ... Read More »

February 3, 2011

Personnel change: The Cooke Agency

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The Cooke Agency has hired former intern Rachel Letofsky as a literary assistant. Letofsky is a graduate of the ... Read More »

February 3, 2011

Distribution change: Michelin North America

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Effective immediately, Penguin Canada will distribute English-language titles – including guidebooks, maps, and atlases – published ... Read More »

February 3, 2011

Deals: Penguin acquires a pair of hockey titles

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Penguin Canada senior editor Nick Garrison has acquired Selling the Dream: Paying the NHL Price ... On and Off the Ice by Ken Campbell and Jim Parcels. The book will be published in fall 2011. ... Read More »

February 3, 2011

Vaillant’s Tiger tale wins $40,000 non-fiction prize

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John Vaillant’s harrowing true-life tale of a series of tiger attacks in eastern Siberia has won the country’s richest non-fiction prize. At a lunchtime ceremony in his hometown of Vancouver, Vaillant was awarded the $40,000tiger-tale-wins-40000-non-fiction-prize/> ... Read More »

January 31, 2011

Long-time staffers take ownership of Words Worth Books

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Words Worth Books, Waterloo’s much-loved independent bookstore, is changing hands. After 26 years managing the bookshop, owners Chuck Erion and Tricia Siemens have decided to retire and, effective Feb. 1, are selling the business to ... Read More »

January 31, 2011

Michael Van Rooy: 1968–2011

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Crime novelist Michael Van Rooy, a tireless supporter of the Winnipeg writing scene, has died at age 42. Van Rooy was on a book tour of Eastern Canada Thursday when he suffered a heart attack ... Read More »

January 31, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

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Hadley Dyer named new children’s editor at HarperCollins Canada

Personnel change: Ryerson Publishing Program

Open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent to Canadian booksellers

H.B. Fenn restructuring takes industry by surprise

Personnel change: The Cooke Agency

Distribution change: Michelin North America

Deals: Penguin acquires a pair of hockey titles

Vaillant’s Tiger tale wins $40,000 non-fiction prize

Long-time staffers take ownership of Words Worth Books

Michael Van Rooy: 1968–2011

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