Office and contracts manager Samantha North will leave the agency effective Feb. ... Read More »
January 30, 2006
Toronto Mayor David Miller, Toronto Public Library CEO Josephine Bryant, and Margaret Atwood participated in a press conference Friday at the Toronto Reference Library to declare February “Keep Toronto Reading Month.”Designed to highlight and promote ... Read More »
January 30, 2006
Last Thursday evening, in an event held at Calgary bookstore Pages Books on Kensington, Lisa Moore got one step closer to winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize by winning the best book award for the Caribbean ... Read More »
January 30, 2006
Oprah Winfrey’s televised tongue-lashing of A Million Little Pieces author James Frey seems to have done little to dissuade people from buying the bestselling book, and some Canadian independent booksellers say the TV host's harsha-million-little-pieces/> ... Read More »
January 30, 2006
Susan Folkins, a longtime senior editor at Penguin Canada, has been let go as part of the restructuring that saw former agent Nicole Winstanley hired by the company last November.Folkins’ specialty at the firm was ... Read More »
January 26, 2006
After 14 years and more than 100 titles, The Books Collective suspended publication at the end of 2005.Candas Jane Dorsey, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Alberta-based group of publishers, says a number of factors led ... Read More »
January 26, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
The Italian translation of Steven Hayward's The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke has won ... Read More »
January 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book news
Nicole Winstanley, the outgoing subsidiary rights director at Westwood Creative Artists, has sold Stephanie Nolen’s 28 to Actes Sud in France, to Oyvind Arneberg in Norway, and to Lemeac in Quebec (for Canadian French rights). ... Read More »
January 25, 2006
Effective immediately, North-South Books will no longer be distributed in ... Read More »
January 25, 2006
Effective immediately, Potomac Books will no longer be distributed in ... Read More »
January 25, 2006 | Filed under: Book links
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