Some literary luminaries were among the 75 appointments to the Order of Canada announced last week by Governor General Michaëlle Jean. Writers Maria Campbell, George Elliott Clarke, and Audrey Thomas were among those named as ... Read More »
July 7, 2008
Ottawa-based religious publisher Novalis has been partnered with Bayard Presse Canada for years – Bayard handled all of the house’s administrative, production, warehousing, and sales and marketing duties – but now they are slated to ... Read More »
July 7, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
The Dundurn Group has acquired the Canadian Book Review Annual, two weeks after its publisher announced the venerable publication was shutting down due to rising production and shipping costs and competition from other online sources.canadian-book-review-annual-acquired-by-dundurn/> ... Read More »
July 7, 2008
The Centre for the Revitalization of Canadian Literature, an Ottawa-based non-profit with a mandate to republish seminal works of Canadian literature, will host a symposium in September on the state of the publishing industry in ... Read More »
July 7, 2008
Author Kenneth J. Harvey has announced the shortlist for the eighth annual ReLit Awards, which recognize works published by independent presses. The winners will be announced at an event during the Ottawa International Writers Festival ... Read More »
July 4, 2008
This week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 nature titles for the two weeks ending June 29, 2008, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData. Looks like Canadians love their birds. Lone Pine Publishing is ... Read More »
July 4, 2008
BookExpo Canada may be over, but part of the fun of the trade show – getting free books from various publishers – lives on in Mini Book Expo, an online initiative by Plethora Press publisher ... Read More »
July 3, 2008
Toronto bookstore Nicholas Hoare is hosting a new “book club” that will transport readers to the other side of the world – all the way to India. Starting this September, participants in the Books Abroad ... Read More »
July 3, 2008
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