As of January 2006, Shona Cook and Michaela Cornell will handle all publicity in Canada for the Perseus Books ... Read More »
December 19, 2005
An extremely high volume of returns from Indigo – apparently due in part to the chain's supply chain management software – is putting a damper on the peak pre-Christmas sales season for a number of ... Read More »
December 19, 2005
Renaud-Bray bookstores were jammed with holiday shoppers on the weekend, after 350 striking workers went back to work Friday, but it's too soon to tell what damage three weeks of labour troubles that closed 11 ... Read More »
December 19, 2005
Doubleday Canada assistant editor Nicholas Massey-Garrison has just inked a deal with sportswriter Gare Joyce for a “definitive account” of the infamous 1987 World Junior Hockey Championship game between Canada and the Soviet Union that ... Read More »
December 19, 2005
McClelland & Stewart rights director Marilyn Biderman has sold German rights to Kevin Bazzana’s Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould to Schott Musik International; World French-language rights to Bernice Eisenstein’s I Was ... Read More »
December 19, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Here is a look back at all of the year's major news stories from Q&Q Omni.JANUARYBook industry contributes to tsunami reliefJan. 7: The Canadian book trade is offering support to the humanitarian groups leading relief ... Read More »
Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon Nicole Brossard (Coach House Books) AND Modern and Normal Karen Solie (Brick Books) “It’s a tie! Nicole Brossard’s book was just given a fantastic translation by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood for ... Read More »
December 16, 2005
From an epic war novel to a quiet tale of despair; from a salacious political tell-all (albeit unintentional on the part of the teller) to an impassioned polemic on the AIDS crisis; from a free-verseqq-s-books-of-the-year-2005/> ... Read More »
December 16, 2005
Vancouver’s Beach Holme Publishing has sold its Sandcastle young-adult imprint to Toronto’s Dundurn Group and will relocate to Vancouver Island in January with scaled-down operations.Beach Holme president David Godfrey and Dundurn president and publisher Kirk ... Read More »
December 15, 2005
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