It’s one high-profile event down and one more to go for Margaret Atwood’s LongPen, which is being put through its paces at the 16-day Edinburgh International Book Festival. On Sunday afternoon, the long-distance tool allowed ... Read More »

Two long-time Portage & Main Press staff members are taking over the Winnipeg-based company, as director of publishing Catherine Gerbasi and special projects editor Annalee Greenberg have purchased the company from former owner and president ... Read More »

McArthur & Company’s one-woman publicity department is about to undergo a changing of the guard. Vice-president of publicity Janet Harron is leaving the company to move to St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will be replaced by ... Read More »

The Department of Canadian Heritage should establish a dedicated funding stream for Canadian publishers’ digitization efforts, says a new report on digital media from the Association of Canadian Publishers. Such a fund, the report suggests, ... Read More »

This week’s list covers the top frontlist fiction/suspense titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 5, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury(Penguin, $13.50 mm, 9780451219954)2. Triptych, Karin Slaughter(Dell Publishing/Random House, ... Read More »

A year after joining Penguin Canada as publicity manager, David Leonard has been let go.Leonard declined to comment on his departure Thursday, and Penguin publicity and marketing director Yvonne Hunter would not discuss specifics. In ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada continues to tweak its sales and marketing department. The firm has just announced three new sales directors – one is a promotion from within and two are new hires.The newcomers are Sandra Leef, ... Read More »

Georgetown Publications has a new sales and marketing director. Longtime HarperCollins Canada employee Brian Skerrett is replacing the recently departed Rob Dawson.Skerrett will join the Toronto-area sales agency on Sept. 4. “I think he’s going ... Read More »

Sometime next month, Oprah Winfrey will air her latest book club episode, devoted to Jeffrey Eugenides’ 2002 novel Middlesex. That book was published here in a separate edition by Knopf Canada, and later in amiddlesex-blues/> ... Read More »