Amy Black of Doubleday Canada has signed a deal with author Joan Clark for a new YA novel. Bliss is about a teenage boy who attempts to rescue a young woman from an authoritarian religious ... Read More »
July 9, 2008
Entertainment Weekly recently compiled a list of the 25 most memorable book covers from the past 25 years. Their list is slightly skewed toward ubiquitous mega-designer Chip Kidd, who scores six entries. The lone Canadian ... Read More »
Effective immediately, D&B Books (ISBN prefixes 0-9551697; 1-904468), formerly distributed by National Book Network, will be distributed ... Read More »
July 9, 2008
A few years ago, armed with a modest provincial grant, the Albert Library branch of the Regina Public Library set about rejuvenating its drab, forbidding façade. Today, the building is enlivened by a mural by ... Read More »
July 8, 2008
Once a month, dozens of teenage boys stream through the doors of the Toronto Public Library’s Albion branch, but they haven’t come for the books – they’re here for the Wii. The branch runs monthly ... Read More »
July 8, 2008
Imagine a typical Canadian library user – let’s call her Jennifer. Home from a long day at the office, Jennifer wants nothing more than to put on some music and lose herself in a book. ... Read More »
July 8, 2008
Custom publishing – the practice of creating books for the specific use of corporate clients – has been a major source of supplementary revenue for U.S. trade publishers for years, but here in Canada not ... Read More »
July 8, 2008
The Toronto bookstore Pages is known for its artsy, quirky space that highlights local culture as well as literature. But the Pages website hadn’t exactly kept pace with the store itself – at least, not ... Read More »
July 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Building a small publishing empire wasn’t what Pat and Rodger Touchie had in mind when they moved from Vancouver to Nanoose Bay back in 1996. At the time, Pat was the marketing director for Self-Counsel ... Read More »
July 8, 2008
Douglas & McIntyre’s new fiction editor, Chris Labonté, has already been with the firm for several years as an assistant – first to Greystone Books publisher Rob Sanders, and then to Scott McIntyre. “‘You’re way ... Read More »
July 8, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
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