


Westwood Creative Artists subsidiary rights director Nicole Winstanley has sold world Korean ... Read More »
September 21, 2005 | Filed under: Book links

The shortlisted titles for this year's Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic are:• The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay (Penguin Canada)• The Memory Artists by Jeffrey Moore (Penguin Canada)• ... Read More »
September 21, 2005

Four books have been shortlisted for the 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award, which will be presented by Mayor Larry Campbell on Oct. 18, 2005. The award carries a $2,000 prize. The finalists, as chosen ... Read More »
September 20, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

In the first of what could be many appearances on award shortlists this fall, Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road (Penguin Canada) is one of five books to be shortlisted for the 2005 McNally Robinson Aboriginal ... Read More »
September 20, 2005

Last Saturday, a story ran in the Toronto Star claiming that Scotiabank has made a multi-year commitment to sponsor the Giller Prize. Jack Rabinovitch, the founder of the illustrious award, was unwilling to comment on ... Read More »
September 19, 2005

The Montreal-based bilingual children’s record label and publishing house The Secret Mountain has announced its first U.S. release. The Juno Award- and Parents’ Choice Gold Award-winning title, A Duck In New York City, will make ... Read More »
September 19, 2005

The new managing editor of Key Porter Books finally has his papers in order and is ready to get to work.Jonathan Schmidt, an American who comes to Key Porter after working in publishing at Tor ... Read More »
September 19, 2005

McClelland & Stewart has launched an innovative new marketing campaign that introduces key titles directly to consumers. But the move has drawn mixed reviews from booksellers, some of whom fear a trend of publishers seeking ... Read More »
September 16, 2005

It certainly didn’t happen overnight, but after years of foot-dragging the Canadian publishing industry seems to have finally embraced electronic ordering, or EDI (electronic data interchange). Many small- to medium-sized publishers and retailers had been ... Read More »
September 16, 2005