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BookNet bestsellers: music

Don’t just listen to your favourite musical artists – read them, too! This week’s list features biographies of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Keith Richards, and more, along with helpful guides for the budding musician. For ... Read More »

July 6, 2009

Greystone teams up with pot-smoking Olympian Rebagliati

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Controversial Olympic gold-medalist Ross Rebagliati has penned a new book detailing the evolution of snowboarding for Vancouver’s Greystone Books. Called Off the Chain: A Renegade History of Snowboarding, the book is both a history of ... Read More »

July 2, 2009

Deals: New books about Gaza, Sister Ping, and the trouble with Canada

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Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired an as-yet-untitled memoir – written with Canadian author, filmmaker, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong – by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, whose three daughters were killed by an ... Read More »

July 2, 2009

DK travel guides now sold as iPhone apps

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While many publishers are eyeing mobile devices – iPhones, BlackBerries, and cell phones – as a lucrative emerging market for e-books, there’s still no consensus about how to best connect with potential users. Just last ... Read More »

July 2, 2009

Ridley, Barwin win bpNichol chapbook award

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Poets Sandra Ridley and Gary Barwin were named co-winners of the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award in a ceremony in Toronto last week. Ridley won for her Lift: Ghazals for C. (JackPine Press), while Barwin ... Read More »

July 2, 2009

Distribution change: R&S Books

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D&M Publishers will no longer be handling Canadian distribution of R&S Books (ISBN ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Nikiforuk nominated for Grantham Prize

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Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books) has been nominated for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. The award is given jointly by the ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Simon & Schuster U.S. pays Montreal firm $500,000 for Jackson bio

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Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based firm that has been in the news of late for preparing to publish the first posthumous biography of Michael Jackson, has just sold U.S. rights to the book to Simon ... Read More »

July 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Pierre Turgeon returns with new Michael Jackson bio

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Disgraced Montreal publisher Pierre Turgeon – who pleaded guilty last March to charges of fraud – appears to have rebounded from the bankruptcy of his old publishing firm, Trait d’union. Not only is he back ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

BookNet bestsellers: Gay Fiction

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Now that Toronto's Pride Day is over for another year – and with several other Pride Days set to take place in other Canadian cities in the weeks ahead – the time seemed right to ... Read More »

June 29, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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BookNet bestsellers: music

Greystone teams up with pot-smoking Olympian Rebagliati

Deals: New books about Gaza, Sister Ping, and the trouble with Canada

DK travel guides now sold as iPhone apps

Ridley, Barwin win bpNichol chapbook award

Distribution change: R&S Books

Nikiforuk nominated for Grantham Prize

Simon & Schuster U.S. pays Montreal firm $500,000 for Jackson bio

Pierre Turgeon returns with new Michael Jackson bio

BookNet bestsellers: Gay Fiction

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