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BookNet bestsellers: Canadian hardcovers

Despite several unfavourable reviews, Yann Martel’s follow-up to Life of Pi has piqued readers’ interest enough to make it to number one on this list of the best-selling Canadian hardcovers for the two weeks ending ... Read More »

April 26, 2010

Author Peter Watts avoids jail time

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More than four months after an altercation with U.S. border guards at the Port Huron–Sarnia border, and several weeks after being found guilty of “non-compliance with a border guard” by a U.S. court, Canadian sci-fi ... Read More »

April 26, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Frontenac House teams up with Wattpad

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In an unorthodox move, the Calgary-based trade publisher Frontenac House has paired up with Wattpad, a social networking site for wannabe authors, to launch a poetry competition called Extravaganza!, inviting young poets worldwide to submit ... Read More »

April 26, 2010

Cathleen With, Lornia Crozier among BC Book Prizes winners

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The West Coast Book Prize Society announced the winners of the 26th annual BC Book Prizes on April 24. Each winner receives $2,000, with the exception of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award winner, who receives $5,000. ... Read More »

April 26, 2010

Bronwen Wallace Award shortlist announced

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The Writers’ Trust of Canada has announced the finalists for the 16th annual RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, which is given to an author under the age of 35 for an original, unpublished ... Read More »

April 22, 2010

Distribution change: Arsenal Pulp Press

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Effective July 1, 2010, Arsenal Pulp Press (ISBN prefixes 978-1-55152, 978-0-88978) will be distributed by the University of Toronto Press and represented by Kate Walker & Company. Jaguar Book Group will accept returns until June ... Read More »

April 22, 2010

Strong dollar has publishers contemplating pricing (again)

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Though the finance minister may not be waving around Harry Potter titles and asking why Canadians have to pay more for them than Americans, the spectre of fall 2007 is rearing its ugly head again. ... Read More »

April 22, 2010

Publishers get behind CBA National Conference

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The Canadian Booksellers Association’s National Conference, which took place for the first time last year following the demise of BookExpo Canada, may be over a month away, but there are already signs that publishers are ... Read More »

April 22, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Deals: Books about western Canada, Canadian cheeses, and more

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Michael Schellenberg, associate publisher of Knopf Canada, has secured rights to Mary Janigan’s non-fiction work Laying Claims: How the West Was (Almost) Lost, about western Canada's decades-long struggle to wrest control of its natural resources ... Read More »

April 21, 2010

Key Porter takes on self-publishing phenomenon I Am Hutterite

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Already a Canadian self-publishing success story, Mary-Ann Kirkby’s 2007 memoir I Am Hutterite is poised to find an all-new readership this year via a new distribution arrangement with Key Porter Books. The memoir, about Kirkby’s ... Read More »

April 20, 2010

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BookNet bestsellers: Canadian hardcovers

Author Peter Watts avoids jail time

Frontenac House teams up with Wattpad

Cathleen With, Lornia Crozier among BC Book Prizes winners

Bronwen Wallace Award shortlist announced

Distribution change: Arsenal Pulp Press

Strong dollar has publishers contemplating pricing (again)

Publishers get behind CBA National Conference

Deals: Books about western Canada, Canadian cheeses, and more

Key Porter takes on self-publishing phenomenon I Am Hutterite

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