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Web-based literary journal The Incongruous Quarterly readies for launch

The Incongruous Quarterly, a Toronto- and Montreal-based online literary journal devoted to publishing “unpublishable things,” will debut on the Web on Saturday. Founder and editor-in-chief Emma Healey is launching the Web-based journal even as small ... Read More »

July 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian non-fiction

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This week's list covers the top-20 Canadian non-fiction titles. The Book of Awesome still holds the top spot, but several titles, notably Lyndsay Green’s You Could Live a Long Time (at #4) and Declan Hill’s ... Read More »

July 26, 2010

Strong performance in publishing, education boosts Pearson first-half results

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Pearson PLC is reporting a strong first-half performance underpinned by growth in its educational and trade publishing divisions. In financial results released on Monday, the U.K.-headquartered company is reporting an increase in sales of 8% ... Read More »

July 26, 2010

Canadian Heritage seeks input in review of foreign investment policy

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The Department of Canadian Heritage has launched a review of decades-old policies ensuring Canadian ownership in the publishing sector. The review is the first of its kind since the Revised Foreign Investment Policy in Book ... Read More »

July 22, 2010

Blue Met founder Linda Leith retires

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Linda Leith, founder and artistic director of Montreal’s Blue Metropolis Foundation and multilingual literary festival, has announced she’s retiring as of Jan. 1, 2011. Leith plans to spend more time writing after leaving a position ... Read More »

July 22, 2010

S&B retains lucrative Forest of Reading contract

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The Ontario Library Association has announced that the lucrative contract for its Forest of Reading program has once again been awarded to library wholesaler S&B Books. S&B beat out four other companies to win the ... Read More »

July 22, 2010

Deals: Cormorant acquires poetry title, and more

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Publisher Marc Côté and poetry editor Robyn Sarah of Cormorant Books have acquired world rights to George Jonas’s collection By Fools Like Me, in which the author gives new life to the work of 60 ... Read More »

July 21, 2010

BookNet bestsellers: 2010 hardcover fiction

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This week’s bestseller list covers the top 20 hardcover fiction titles published in 2010. Stieg Larsson and Nora Roberts take the top two spots, while Justin Cronin’s epic vampire novel, The Passage, comes in at ... Read More »

July 19, 2010

Agents, authors take wait-and-see approach in e-book royalty debate

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As the debate about e-book royalties heats up in other parts of the world, the conversation among Canadian agents, authors, and publishers seems to be more subdued. While agents are still wary of the standard ... Read More »

July 19, 2010

New campaign touts Canadian e-books

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A new marketing campaign targeting the public library sector aims to raise awareness about the availability of Canadian-published e-books. Through a series of print ads in industry and library publications as well as e-mail blasts ... Read More »

July 19, 2010

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Web-based literary journal The Incongruous Quarterly readies for launch

BookNet bestsellers: Canadian non-fiction

Strong performance in publishing, education boosts Pearson first-half results

Canadian Heritage seeks input in review of foreign investment policy

Blue Met founder Linda Leith retires

S&B retains lucrative Forest of Reading contract

Deals: Cormorant acquires poetry title, and more

BookNet bestsellers: 2010 hardcover fiction

Agents, authors take wait-and-see approach in e-book royalty debate

New campaign touts Canadian e-books

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