It’s Olympics time, so this week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 sports and recreation titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 10, 2008, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData. Golf is the most ... Read More »
August 15, 2008
Random House of Canada announced yesterday that chairman John Neale will retire at the end of this year. Neale, an industry veteran of more than 30 years, had been in the position since 1999, the ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
Publishers and literary agents affected by the government’s decision to axe PromArt, the $4.7-million arts subsidy administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, are angered by the move and fear it could ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
The Toronto bookstore Pages is expanding its popular This Is Not a Reading Series to include a monthly program for the preschool and early elementary set, to be called TINARS for Tots. TINARS co-ordinator Chris ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
Eagle-eyed readers of The Globe and Mail may have spotted a tiny notice in last Saturday’s paper explaining that the weekly Books section would be going on a late-summer hiatus, with no new installments scheduledglobe-books-section-to-take-two-week-hiatus/> ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
Penguin Canada senior editor Helen Reeves has gone on maternity leave, and has been replaced by Alex Schultz, a ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
After two books with McClelland & Stewart – Giller-longlisted The Garneau Block and The Book of Stanley – Edmonton author Todd Babiak has moved to HarperCollins Canada, signing a two-book deal with editorial director Jennifer ... Read More »
August 14, 2008
Penguin Canada associate editor Jennifer Notman has acquired world rights to The Changeling series by Seàn Cullen, the Toronto comic, author, and member of Corky and the Juice Pigs. Geared to the YA market, the ... Read More »
August 13, 2008
Last year, two former friends named Colin Angus and Tim Harvey found themselves on opposite sides of a publishing-world war, with each man planning to publish their own account of a troubled around-the-world odyssey they ... Read More »
August 11, 2008
A new initiative spearheaded by the Ontario Arts Council could soon make grant applications easier for publishers – but not soon enough for some. Last week, the Ontario Arts Council announced plans to partner with ... Read More »
August 11, 2008
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