If you’re an independent bookseller in this day and age, it isn’t always enough just to sell good books – you pretty much have to do anything you can to get customers in the door. ... Read More »
August 11, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
In recent years, American non-fiction sales charts have been dominated by conservative commentators and talk-show hosts. Whether it’s Ann Coulter, whose recent Canadian speaking tour made a well-coordinated media splash, or Mark R. Levin, the ... Read More »
August 11, 2010
Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam has acquired world rights to Talk - Action = Zero: A Visual History of D.O.A. by lead singer/guitarist Joe Keithley, and Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, an anthology ... Read More »
August 11, 2010
Indigo Books & Music posted a $5.3 million loss in its first quarter ending July 3, 2010, and CEO Heather Reisman is attributing the downturn to the company's investment in the Kobo e-reading platform. “The ... Read More »
August 9, 2010
This week’s bestseller list, which has been restricted to titles released in 2010, covers the top 10 hardcover children’s titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 1. Alas, no Canadian authors make the list. Stephenie ... Read More »
August 9, 2010
The PEI-based Acorn Press has a new owner. On Aug. 5, founder Laurie Brinklow sold the 16-year-old company to Terrilee Bulger, the current sales and marketing manager of the Halifax-based Nimbus Publishing. Brinklow first announced ... Read More »
August 9, 2010
When Indigo CEO Heather Reisman launched the first two locations of her eco-themed gift and stationery chain Pistachio in 2008, she hoped to have another six to eight stores spread across Eastern Canada by the ... Read More »
August 9, 2010
The Writers’ Union of Canada has named Kelly Duffin, the former publicist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, as its new executive director. Duffin’s first day will be Aug. 16, while current executive director Deborah Windsor, ... Read More »
August 5, 2010
Toronto writer Derek McCormack’s 2003 book The Haunted Hillbilly (ECW Press) – about a rising country music star and a vampiric couturier named Nudie – has been turned into a country-and-western musical by Montreal writerhaunted-hillbilly-transformed-into-stage-spectacular/> ... Read More »
August 5, 2010
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