Groundwood Books rights director Lisa Nave has optioned film and television rights ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Marilyn Biderman, director of rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart, has sold Madeleine Thien’s Certainty to Faber & Faber in the U.K., Ambo/Anthos in Denmark, and Mondadori in Italy. Ron Eckel, rights manager at ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Since its publication in 2003, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, has been a mainstay on international bestseller lists and has garnered critical raves, including this one from Publishers Weekly: “It is rare that ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
As BookNet Canada rolls out its sales data analysis system (see Q&Q’s bestseller listings on p. 80), industry players are developing innovative ways to adapt the long-awaited information to serve their needs. Both retailers and ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
In the television industry, people complain all the time about the fall season and how ridiculous it is for the networks to bombard the public with a year’s worth of product all at once and ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
What do you do when you’re translating Leonard Cohen’s raunchy novel Beautiful Losers into a language that doesn’t have profanity? Lithuanian Aiste Ptakauskaite ran into the problem last summer while working at the Banff International ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Doug Pepper has heard all the doom and gloom about the end of book reading. That a population dazzled by the Internet, DVDs, and video games is in the process of abandoning books for good. ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Last fall, Scott Steedman left Raincoast Books after four years as editorial director, non-fiction, to become senior editor at Douglas & McIntyre. At Raincoast, one of the books he edited and acquired was Paul William ... Read More »
March 15, 2006
Tucked away somewhere on the labyrinthine second floor of the University of Toronto’s John M. Kelly Library is the Scribe. Like its namesake from days long past, this Scribe makes copies of manuscripts, but that’s ... Read More »
March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
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