It might not have been as big or as glamorous as BookExpo Canada, but the CBA Summer Conference was deemed an improvement by many of those who attended. The two-day conference, which took place this ... Read More »
June 22, 2009
Earlier this month, when the Boston-based publisher David R. Godine decided to end its deal for Canadian representation with McArthur & Company, it was another blow to the embattled Canadian firm, which was already preparing ... Read More »
June 22, 2009 | Filed under: Books of the Year
Throughout its first 36 years in business, the St. John’s-based Breakwater Books has focused mostly on the Atlantic Canadian market, but plans are afoot to build a more national presence. The first major step in ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
Knowledge Bureau, publisher of the Master Your Personal Finances series, is now represented ... Read More »
June 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book links
Effective immediately, Georgetown Publications is the Canadian distributor for Stackpole Books and all ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
Effective July 1, 2009, H.B. Fenn and Company will handle Canadian trade sales, marketing, and distribution for Oxmoor House, a Time Inc. company. Raincoast Books will accept returns until Sept. 30, but only for products ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
The Canadian Coalition for School Libraries publicly criticized Ontario schools earlier this week for failing to purchase enough Canadian-authored books. In a press release issued Wednesday, the CCSL pointed out that, of the recent $15-million ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
Toronto’s Ryerson University has been offering instruction in book publishing for years, but its courses have always been geared toward industry novices, never toward publishing professionals. That will change later this year with the launch ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
Doubleday Canada senior editor Tim Rostron has acquired Canadian rights to a new book by Vancouver-based journalist Charles Montgomery, winner of the 2005 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for The Last Heathen. In Happy ... Read More »
June 18, 2009
After six years at the helm of BookNet Canada, the not-for-profit book industry sales data and “technology innovation” agency, founder and CEO Michael Tamblyn is stepping down to take on a senior role at Shortcovers, ... Read More »
June 15, 2009
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