After a year of climbing profits in 2008, McGraw-Hill Ryerson has posted a decline in revenue in the first quarter of 2009. During the three months ending March 31, the company’s total revenue was down ... Read More »
May 4, 2009
Launching a new publishing venture in the current economic climate is risky enough, but Toronto-based writer and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi is really going out on a limb. Not only is his new company, Urdu ... Read More »
May 4, 2009
The Donner Prize – for a book on Canadian public policy – was awarded last night to Ken S. Coates, P. Whitney Lackenbauer, William R. Morrison, and Greg Poelzer, for their book Arctic Front: Defending ... Read More »
May 1, 2009
Last week’s London Book Fair went much as expected, according to Canadian agents contacted by Q&Q Omni: attendance, they say, seemed lower than at previous fairs, and fewer deals were made. Nevertheless, business was conducted ... Read More »
April 30, 2009
It looks as if Indigo CEO Heather Reisman might be feeling a wee bit threatened by the Toronto debut of the McNally Robinson Booksellers chain. Just prior to the store’s grand opening last Sunday in ... Read More »
April 30, 2009
Books about Izzy Asper, Mordecai Richler, and Jesus Christ are all winners of the 21st annual Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards, celebrating excellence in Canadian writing on Jewish themes. Second Story Press ... Read More »
April 30, 2009 | Filed under: Book news
John Kruusi has joined Penguin Canada in the role of contracts and rights co-ordinator, a position previously held by Harmony Ho. Kruusi’s responsibilities include negotiating and executing serial sales, excerpts and permissions agreements, contracts administration, ... Read More »
April 30, 2009
After a hiatus of nearly a decade, publishing veteran Malcolm Lester is back, in a new partnership with book packager Madison Press Books. As publisher-at-large of the new Lester Madison Editions, Lester will be the ... Read More »
April 30, 2009
Beating out fellow nominees William Deverell and Sheree Fitch, Vancouver author Mark Leiren-Young has been named the winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, for his memoir Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A ... Read More »
April 30, 2009
McArthur & Company publisher Kim McArthur has acquired Canadian rights to journalist and novelist Marianne Ackerman’s third novel. Pier’s Desire is the story of a mystery writer from Montreal. Suffering from writer’s block, the fictional ... Read More »
April 29, 2009
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