Former bookstore owner Carol Smith died in Calgary on Jan. 23. She was 86 years old. Smith owned the Hamilton Bookcellar in the late 1960s until the early 1970s. In an e-mail to Q&Q Omni, ... Read More »
February 11, 2008
Douglas & McIntyre has unveiled several new signings in a plan to rev up its fiction program. After a fiction hiatus this spring, D&M will publish Revenant, by Ontario-born Welsh novelist Tristan Hughes, next fall, ... Read More »
February 11, 2008
One of Canada’s most popular literary blogs is facing an interruption in service this week. Bookninja was hacked over the weekend in what the site’s founder and administrator, George Murray, called an “act of senseless ... Read More »
February 11, 2008 | Filed under: Awards
Canadian author Marsha Skrypuch has been named to the Ukraine's Order of Princess Olha, Class III. The nod recognizes Skrypuch’s engagement of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian famine in her fiction, specifically the 2000 novel Enough (Fitzhenry ... Read More »
February 11, 2008
This week’s list covers the top social studies titles for the two weeks ending Feb. 3, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. 1. The Innocent Man, John Grisham (Dell/Random House, $11.99 pa, 9780440244684) ... Read More »
February 11, 2008
Effective Feb. 1, 2008, Publishers Group Canada no longer represents ... Read More »
February 11, 2008
Lorna Goodison has won one of Canada’s most lucrative literary prizes. On Thursday afternoon the author took the $40,000 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for her family memoir From Harvey River: A Memory of ... Read More »
February 7, 2008
For decades, the publishing supply chain has been complicated by the practice of retailers sending back unsold copies of books for credit. Now BookNet Canada is launching a wide-ranging industry survey on returns, with an ... Read More »
February 7, 2008
Canadian online bookseller AbeBooks.com is targeting new international markets with Gojaba.com, a new website for used, rare, and out-of-print books serving booksellers and buyers in Sweden and Russia. Having established a niche as the leading ... Read More »
February 7, 2008
Bow Grip (Arsenal Pulp Press), by Whitehorse-based writer Ivan E. Coyote, was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book at the ALA's Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia.The Stonewall Awards are selected by the Gay, Lesbian, ... Read More »
February 6, 2008
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