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BookNet bestsellers: top 20 overall titles

This week’s bestseller listings cover the top sellers for the two weeks ending Feb. 18. The list captures the top overall titles, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. The Secret, Rhonda Byrne(Beyond Words/Dempsey, ... Read More »

February 26, 2007

Quebec indie booksellers join marketing forces

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Some 90 independent bookstores all over Quebec are banding together and “branding” themselves in an effort to boost sales. Last week, the Association des libraires du Québec (ALQ) and the bimonthly magazine Le Libraire (The ... Read More »

February 26, 2007

CBC Literary Awards/Prix Littéraires Radio-Canada broadcast

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The 2006 CBC Literary Awards/Prix Littéraires Radio-Canada will be broadcast on Feb. 23 on CBC Radio. English-language winners for poetry, short story and creative non-fiction will be announced at 8 p.m. French-language winners will be ... Read More »

February 22, 2007

Canadian publishers react to Perseus-PGW deal

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Canadian publishers distributed by Publishers Group West in the U.S. welcomed news that a U.S. court approved a deal for Perseus Books to assume PGW distribution contracts. After PGW’s parent company, Advanced Marketing Services, filed ... Read More »

February 22, 2007

Quebec book garners international design accolade

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L’Appareil, a cookbook from Montreal-based publisher La Pastèque, has won a bronze medal for book design in the Best Book Design From All Over the World competition, based in Leipzig, Germany. Designers Anouk Pennel and ... Read More »

February 22, 2007

Literary Press Group of Canada

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Effective March 12, Nadine Boyd, who has worked with Whitecap Books and Anvil ... Read More »

February 22, 2007

Malla Malla

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House of Anansi Press publisher Lynn Henry has signed a two-book deal with author Pasha Malla, whose short works have been published by McSweeney’s, The Fiddlehead, and Maisonneuve. The first of the two titles will ... Read More »

February 21, 2007

Foreign Front: Feb. 21, 2007

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Robert Mackwood of the Seventh Avenue Literary Agency has sold Andre Kukla’s Mental Traps to Alpina Business Books in Russia; Editora Gente in Portugal; Aykiri Publishing in Turkey; and to Planeta de Agostini in Spain. ... Read More »

February 21, 2007

Malahat Review announces poetry and short fiction award winners

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The winner of The Malahat Review’s inaugural P.K. Page Founders’ Award for Poetry is Jan Conn of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, for her poem “Golden,” which appeared in the summer 2006 issue of the review. Themalahat-review-announces-poetry-and-short-fiction-award-winners/> ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Launch for Nadia Bozak's Orphan Love

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Nadia Bozak's debut novel, Orphan Love (Key Porter Books), was launched on Feb. 20 at Type Books in Toronto. (Photos by Quill & Quire.) The Key Porter publicity team - from left to right: Jennifer ... Read More »

February 20, 2007 | Filed under: Events

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BookNet bestsellers: top 20 overall titles

Quebec indie booksellers join marketing forces

CBC Literary Awards/Prix Littéraires Radio-Canada broadcast

Canadian publishers react to Perseus-PGW deal

Quebec book garners international design accolade

Literary Press Group of Canada

Malla Malla

Foreign Front: Feb. 21, 2007

Malahat Review announces poetry and short fiction award winners

Launch for Nadia Bozak's Orphan Love

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