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Kobo unveils social media reading app

For those of you who find reading a too solitary activity, Kobo, the Toronto-based e-reading service, has launched a Facebook-integrated social media reading app. Reading Life allows Kobo users to share what they’re reading via ... Read More »

December 9, 2010

Deals: Saleema Nawaz, Peggy Blair, Russell Wangersky, and more

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Penguin Canada commissioning editor Adrienne Kerr has acquired world English-language rights for two books by Peggy Blair, one of Canada’s leading Aboriginal lawyers and a former Crown prosecutor. The first is The Beggar’s Opera, a ... Read More »

December 8, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Prolific UTP editor Virgil Duff prepares to retire

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In 1980, Virgil Duff was hired as acquisitions editor at the University of Toronto Press, a position created especially for him. After acquiring more than 1,000 books for the firm, the 64-year-old Duff is preparing ... Read More »

December 6, 2010

Google deal pending with Canadian booksellers

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As reported earlier today, Google has finally launched its long-awaited e-book retail site, Google eBookstore, and in contrast to the Kindle Store and the iBookstore, it may actually prove a boon to brick-and-mortar indie booksellers. ... Read More »

December 6, 2010

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

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This week’s bestsellers list, which focuses exclusively on books released in 2010, looks at the top Canadian fiction for the two weeks ending Nov. 28. Johanna Skibsrud’s Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning The Sentimentalists, recently reprinted in ... Read More »

December 6, 2010

Potential TPL cuts a “tremendous concern” to library distributors

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With Rob Ford newly installed as mayor of Toronto, the city’s public library system may soon have to reduce operating hours, close most of its 99 branches on Sundays, and buy 116,000 fewer lending items ... Read More »

December 2, 2010

Caramba chosen for massive school giveaway

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The Canadian Children’s Book Centre and TD Bank have chosen Marie-Louise Gay’s picture book Caramba (Groundwood Books) for this year’s TD Grade One Book Giveaway. The largest free book distribution program for school-aged children incaramba-chosen-for-massive-school-giveaway/> ... Read More »

December 2, 2010

Address change: Thistledown Press

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Saskatoon publisher Thistledown Press has moved to new offices. The new address is: Thistledown Press ... Read More »

December 2, 2010

Faber Academy rethinks approach to poetry

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How much will aspiring writers pay for an intensive six-month workshop taught by two award-winning Canadian poets? Not $5,000, apparently. The U.K.-based Faber Academy discovered that the hard way earlier this fall when only seven ... Read More »

December 2, 2010

Deals: Elizabeth Ruth, Natalee Caple

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Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côté has acquired Canadian rights to Elizabeth Ruth's third novel, The Matador. Set during the Spanish Civil War, the novel follows an orphan named Luna Caballero Garcia as she defies both ... Read More »

December 1, 2010

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Kobo unveils social media reading app

Deals: Saleema Nawaz, Peggy Blair, Russell Wangersky, and more

Prolific UTP editor Virgil Duff prepares to retire

Google deal pending with Canadian booksellers

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

Potential TPL cuts a “tremendous concern” to library distributors

Caramba chosen for massive school giveaway

Address change: Thistledown Press

Faber Academy rethinks approach to poetry

Deals: Elizabeth Ruth, Natalee Caple

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