McArthur & Company is now handling Canadian sales and distribution of titles by the ... Read More »
Douglas & McIntyre fiction editor Chris Labonté has acquired world English rights to two books by the Haitian-born, Montreal-based author Dany Laferrière. Heading South, to be published in fall 2009, is set in the gritty ... Read More »
February 4, 2009
Authors David Solway and Yolande Villemaire have been named the recipients of Quebec’s Bourse de carrière from the Conseil des arts et des lettres. The $60,000 grant is awarded every two years to two writers ... Read More »
February 2, 2009
Next month marks the 175th anniversary of the founding of Toronto, and the city plans to celebrate by debuting a new literary festival, one that will celebrate its own authors and poets. Dubbed Lit City, ... Read More »
February 2, 2009
Russell Wangersky collected the country’s richest non-fiction prize today at a lunchtime ceremony in Vancouver. Wangersky, who is the editor of the St. John’s Telegram in Newfoundland, took home the $40,000 B.C. National Award for ... Read More »
February 2, 2009
The protracted death throes of BookExpo Canada have officially ended. Organizer Reed Exhibitions announced Monday that it is closing down the annual industry event, due to a lack of support from publishers and booksellers. “Our ... Read More »
February 2, 2009
In the post-Super Bowl glow, our thoughts turn naturally to … philosophy. This week’s bestseller list captures the top 20 philosophy titles for the two weeks ending Jan. 25, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC ... Read More »
February 2, 2009
In recent months, the U.S. publishing industry has been hit hard by the global recession, with most of the major houses announcing mass layoffs, cutbacks, or restructurings. The belt-tightening even affected the industry’s top agents, ... Read More »
January 30, 2009
When Hachette Book Group announced in April of last year that they would be opening a new Canadian office on Jan. 1, 2009, they had no way of knowing we would then be in the ... Read More »
January 30, 2009
One apparent mystery at Whodunit? – a new and used mystery bookstore in Winnipeg – is that one of its bestselling titles is a decidedly non-mysterious 500-page biography of a Scottish philanthropist and colonizer. Lord Selkirk: ... Read More »
January 30, 2009
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