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Caillou royalties kerfuffle resolved

The end may be in sight for the long, unhappy dispute over royalties between the two creators of Caillou, the little bald boy whose books, videos, and toys have sold millions. Hélène Desputeaux, the illustrator ... Read More »

September 29, 2005

New clearinghouse should make e-text transactions easier

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Canadian publishers have a sort of gentleman’s agreement with the visually impaired community, wherein they promise to provide e-files of their titles to companies that produce Braille and/or audio books specifically for the blind. This ... Read More »

September 29, 2005

Uxbridge bookseller wins DK photo contest

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Shelley Macbeth of Blue Heron Books in Uxbridge, Ontario, has won the DK Fifth Anniversary Photo Contest. The publisher invited booksellers to take photos of the DK logo in a creative and interesting situation. Macbeth's ... Read More »

September 29, 2005

Vanderhaeghe wins Harbourfront prize

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Guy Vanderhaeghe is this year's winner of the $10,000 Harbourfront Festival Prize. The honour is handed out annually to an individual who has "made a substantial contribution to the world of books and writing." Previous ... Read More »

September 29, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Foreign front: Sept. 28, 2005

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Dutch rights to Karen Connelly’s The Lizard Cage have been sold by Doubleday U.S.’s Rebecca Gardner to Querido. Marilyn Biderman, director of subsidiary rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart, has sold French Canadian rights ... Read More »

September 28, 2005

Surprising Giller shortlist dominated by Random House – again

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The Random House Giller Prize might be a more appropriate new corporate name for the country’s most lucrative prize for fiction. For the second year in a row, all but one of the books shortlisted ... Read More »

September 28, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Giller Light goes west

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The popular Toronto-based Giller Light party will be branching out to Winnipeg this fall. Coinciding with the black-tie affair that is the official Scotiabank Giller Prize ceremony, both Giller Light parties will be taking place ... Read More »

September 27, 2005

New award for unpublished manuscripts

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The shortlist for the first annual Metcalf-Rooke Award has been released. The award, co-sponsored by Windsor, Ontario, small press Biblioasis and mini-chain Page & Turners, honours unpublished manuscripts submitted to the house. This year, judges ... Read More »

September 27, 2005

Inaugural shortlist for TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

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The finalists for the first-ever TD Canadian Children's Literature Award for the most distinguished children's book of the year has been announced. The award, announced last year in association with TD Canadian Children's Book Week, ... Read More »

September 27, 2005

Fraser Direct hopes it’s worth the drive to Acton

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In the hopes of further expanding their business, Fraser Direct Distribution Services has acquired a 30,000-square-foot warehouse on 13 acres in Acton, Ontario, not far from their headquarters in Georgetown. “It just means an opportunity ... Read More »

September 26, 2005

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Caillou royalties kerfuffle resolved

New clearinghouse should make e-text transactions easier

Uxbridge bookseller wins DK photo contest

Vanderhaeghe wins Harbourfront prize

Foreign front: Sept. 28, 2005

Surprising Giller shortlist dominated by Random House – again

Giller Light goes west

New award for unpublished manuscripts

Inaugural shortlist for TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

Fraser Direct hopes it’s worth the drive to Acton

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