Douglas & McIntyre is losing its marketing director to the American publisher Chronicle Books. Liza Algar will leave the Vancouver company on June 23, and on July 5 she will step into the marketing director ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
The strength of the Canadian dollar has hurt the bottom line at Harlequin Enterprises and its parent company Torstar in the first quarter of 2006, but an executive at the romance novel publisher says there ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
The 2006 City of Ottawa Book Awards will be handed out on May 25, 2006, at Library and Archives Canada. Winners are chosen in four categories, fiction and non-fiction in each of the official languages. ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
Penguin Canada associate editor Helen Reeves has just purchased Canadian rights to a new novel said to be in the multi-generational vein of James Clavell’s Tai-Pan. Shanghai, by David Rotenberg, will explore the epic stories ... Read More »
May 4, 2006 | Filed under: Book news, Bookselling
Penguin Canada senior editor Nicole Winstanley has purchased Canadian rights to a new historical novel by Lesley Downer. The Last Concubine is about medieval Tokyo’s transition to modernity, and it centres on a young woman ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox has acquired Canadian rights to a new novel by Sean Dixon. The Girls Who Saw Everything is about a group of young Montreal women who belong to a book ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency has sold David Gilmour’s A Perfect Night to Go to China to Yerdeniz Yaylinari in Turkey and to Prozorets Publishing in Bulgaria; Louisa McCormack’s Six Weeks to Toxic ... Read More »
May 4, 2006
An unexpected increase in textbook sales created by a one-time only boost to school board budgets in Ontario and British Columbia is largely responsible for McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s improved results in the first quarter of 2006.The ... Read More »
May 1, 2006
Today’s federal budget – the first since Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party took office with a minority government in the winter – may bring mixed blessings for the publishing industry.The promised cut to the ... Read More »
May 1, 2006
Last Thursday, organizers of Waterloo, Ontario's annual One Book, One Community campaign chose Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road to be the centrepiece of this year’s promotion. The aim of the event, which is now inthree-day-road/> ... Read More »
May 1, 2006
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