Effective March 1, 2008, the Canadian sales agency Fire the Imagination will become exclusive sales representative in ... Read More »
March 6, 2008
The 200 or so attendees at BookNet Canada’s second annual Technology Forum, held in Toronto on Thursday, were presented with a surprising proposition – they were invited to join a new publishing-related gambling pool. The ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book news
Library and Archives Canada is shutting down its Ottawa-based Book Exchange Centre, which collects under-used books and periodicals from Canadian libraries and then redistributes them. The resource-sharing service was dealt a major blow last week ... Read More »
March 6, 2008
After more than 27 years of business, National Book Service, the North York, Ontario-based library wholesaler, is closing down. The company has already ceased receiving new orders from library clients, and any remaining orders will ... Read More »
March 6, 2008 | Filed under: Book links
Key Porter Books senior editor Linda Pruessen has acquired a new non-fiction title by the Toronto-based humorist and parenting writer Kathy Buckworth. The Blackberry Diaries: Adventures in Modern Motherhood looks at the lives of working ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
A book with a distinctly Canadian focus has captured this year’s Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. John A.: The Man Who Made Us: The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald (Random House Canada), ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
Over the past few years, Penguin Canada has been making efforts to bolster its genre output, signing sci-fi author Robert Sawyer, thriller writer Michael Slade, and several others. Now they’ve taken the next logical step ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
Changes are afoot at Book City, Toronto’s largest indie bookstore chain. On Saturday, the firm’s 663 Yonge Street location (near Bloor Street) closed after less than four years in business. And in an unrelated, previously ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
The fifth and final Canada Reads debate aired Friday morning on CBC Radio, and Paul Quarrington’s comic novel King Leary was anointed the champion in a close 3-2 vote. Quarrington’s 1987 book, which had beenking-leary-wins-canada-reads/> ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
By the end of April, Edmonton’s Greenwood’s Volume II bookstore will be a thing of the past. Owner Laurie Greenwood, a 30-year veteran of Canadian publishing, has decided to leave the brick-and-mortar book world to ... Read More »
March 5, 2008
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