Joseph Boyden has won the inaugural McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year award for Three Day Road (Penguin Books). The award is given to the best book authored or edited by a person of ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
Holly and Paul McNally of McNally Robinson Booksellers have won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
Penguin Canada publisher David Davidar will soon be publishing two new works by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. The first – Heart Matters – is a memoir in which Clarkson reflects on her life and ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
Nicole Winstanley, Westwood Creative Artists' subsidiary rights director, has sold U.K. rights to James Chatto’s The Greek for Love to John Murray Publishers.Bill Hanna, vice-president of Acacia House Publishing Services, has sold Max Foran’s The ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
David Morin has joined as vice-president of production. Laurie Clarke has joined as vice-president of services. Marta Gonzalez joins as chief information officer. Darian Lajoie Paquette joins as children’s product manager. Alexa Winchell is the ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
Thomson Nelson has acquired Charles River Media. Effective immediately, distribution will be ... Read More »
October 12, 2005
With such well-known competition as Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ali Smith, and Zadie Smith, 2005 Man Booker Prize winner John Banville was a considerable underdog, so much so that his U.S. publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, ... Read More »
October 11, 2005
With its latest acquisition, Harlequin Enterprises has strengthened its presence in the African American market. The Toronto-based multinational romance publisher is buying the assets of the U.S. line BET Books, the publishing imprint of the ... Read More »
October 11, 2005
A new episode of the popular ABC courtroom drama Boston Legal may prominently feature a Canadian book, according to Harbour Publishing marketing manager Marisa Alps. The episode, which was set to air on Oct. 11, ... Read More »
October 11, 2005
Fraser Seely, former longtime publisher at Fifth House, joins as publisher of Rocky Mountain Books and vice-president, regional publishing (Alberta, Sakatchewan, Manitoba) for Heritage House. Seely is based in the Heritage Group's Calgary office. David ... Read More »
October 11, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
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