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Sales and distribution change: Usborne Publishing

Effective Jan. 2, 2014, HarperCollins Canada will handle sales and distribution as well as marketing, customer service, warehousing, billing, and credit services for Usborne Publishing, a children’s book publisher in the U.K. Effective immediately, HarperCollins ... Read More »

August 19, 2013

Canada Council report addresses financial constraints facing the Public Lending Right program

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The Canada Council for the Arts has released its third and final report on the Public Lending Right program. The series of reports, written by author and arts consultant Roy MacSkimming, is intended to assist ... Read More »

August 15, 2013

Distribution change: ABC Art Books Canada

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Effective immediately, ABC Art Books Canada is ... Read More »

August 15, 2013

Robert Wheaton joins Penguin Random House Canada’s executive team

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Robert Wheaton, Random House of Canada’s vice-president of strategic digital business development, has been promoted to senior vice-president and director of business development, online and digital sales strategy for Penguin Random House Canada. Reporting to ... Read More »

August 15, 2013

Deals: Freehand to publish Musharraf Ali Farooqi; S&S Canada acquires a pair of novels; and more

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JoAnn McCaig, acquisitions editor at Freehand Books, has acquired Canadian English-language rights to Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Between Clay and Dust. The novel, about an aging wrestler and a courtesan, was a finalist for the 2012 Man ... Read More »

August 14, 2013

Simon & Schuster Canada’s publishing program takes shape

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With the announcement last week that Kevin Hanson, Alison Clarke, and Phyllis Bruce will spearhead Simon & Schuster Canada’s domestic publishing program, the newest player on the Canadian publishing landscape is starting to come into ... Read More »

August 12, 2013

Address change: The Cooke Agency/Cooke International

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Effective immediately, The Cooke Agency and Cooke International have a ... Read More »

August 12, 2013

Newly released report touts the advantages of an annual Toronto book fair

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The advocates of a bold new proposal for an annual book fair in Toronto hope that such an event could help reinforce the fragile bond between the book industry and the reading public. A report ... Read More »

August 8, 2013

Deals: Greystone acquires Elizabeth May memoir; Penguin picks up Jowita Bydlowska’s Drunk Mom

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Greystone Books has acquired an autobiography by Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May. The book is described as both memoir and manifesto. Publication is scheduled for late 2014. The deal was arranged without an ... Read More »

August 8, 2013

Personnel changes: Canada Council for the Arts

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Roger Gaudet has been named Canada Council for the Arts’ new director, arts disciplines division, effective Oct. 15. Gaudet has been head of ... Read More »

August 7, 2013

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Sales and distribution change: Usborne Publishing

Canada Council report addresses financial constraints facing the Public Lending Right program

Distribution change: ABC Art Books Canada

Robert Wheaton joins Penguin Random House Canada’s executive team

Deals: Freehand to publish Musharraf Ali Farooqi; S&S Canada acquires a pair of novels; and more

Simon & Schuster Canada’s publishing program takes shape

Address change: The Cooke Agency/Cooke International

Newly released report touts the advantages of an annual Toronto book fair

Deals: Greystone acquires Elizabeth May memoir; Penguin picks up Jowita Bydlowska’s Drunk Mom

Personnel changes: Canada Council for the Arts

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