Toronto’s annual Word on the Street festival is making new changes to the way the event is planned and run. For starters, this year the event is putting out a public call for applications to ... Read More »
May 12, 2008
Just when the media frenzy surrounding Conrad Black seemed to have died down, McClelland & Stewart is attempting to fan the flames again with the October 2008 release of Black's new memoir, The Fight of ... Read More »
May 12, 2008
The Book Publishers Association of Alberta unveiled the winners of the annual Alberta Book Publishing Awards at a May 9 gala in Calgary. The University of Alberta Press dominated the awards, taking six of the ... Read More »
May 12, 2008
HarperCollins Canada has formed a unique exclusive partnership with Rouxbe.com, an online cooking site that delivers video cooking lessons to its subscribers. The initiative, which pairs written recipes with step-by-step videos, may well be the ... Read More »
May 8, 2008
Four months after her sudden dismissal from Indigo, former non-fiction buyer Deborah Lewington has resurfaced in an entirely new industry role: as sales and marketing manager for the Toronto-based book distributor National Book Network. It’s ... Read More »
May 8, 2008
Doubleday Canada publisher Maya Mavjee and editorial director Martha Kanya-Forstner have acquired a new non-fiction work by hockey icon Don Cherry, written with sports journalist Al Strachan. Don Cherry’s Hockey Stories and Stuff is meant ... Read More »
May 7, 2008
The winners of the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Awards were announced yesterday at Ryerson Community School in Toronto. Duncan Weller's The Boy From the Sun (Simply Read Books) won the best children's picture ... Read More »
May 7, 2008
Concerned about flagging book sales, Indigo has decided to expand its usual “Buy 3, Get 4th Free” summer sale. In the past, the sale has been applicable only to mass-market paperback titles, but this year’s ... Read More »
May 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Two out of three divisions were down in first-quarter results released late last week by McGraw-Hill Ryerson. For the three months ending March 31, 2008, school sales were steady compared with the same period in ... Read More »
May 5, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
The Association of Canadian Book Wholesalers has raised an alarm about Canadian libraries turning to American wholesalers due to the rise of the Canadian dollar. In a press release, the ACBW says it raised the ... Read More »
May 5, 2008
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