The winner of the 2005 bp Nichol Chapbook Award is Lisa Robertson's Rousseau's Boat, published by Nomados. The award, ... Read More »
August 2, 2005
Indigo CEO Heather Reisman attributes increased sales in the firm's last quarter to improvements made to the supply chain and a more “strategic assortment” in the relaunched gifts category.“Our efforts to refine our assortment on ... Read More »
July 28, 2005
Douglas & McIntyre has completed a number of changes in response to the departure of Susan McIntosh, the company’s longtime vice-president of sales and marketing, who left recently for a position with McGill-Queen’s University Press.For ... Read More »
July 28, 2005
This July 16, Newfoundlanders could finally enjoy the time difference that gets them up a half hour before anyone else in the country – because of this, it meant they were the first people in ... Read More »
July 28, 2005
Blogs aren’t just for geeks anymore. That was one key message from a half-day conference at Simon Fraser University’s Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing in Vancouver. Wednesday’s conference, dubbed “The Future of Publishing,” drew ... Read More »
July 28, 2005
Poet Zoe Whittall has signed a deal with Cormorant Books publisher Marc Côté for Canadian rights to a debut collection of short stories. Bottle Rocket Hearts is a series of loosely connected tales set in ... Read More »
July 27, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
Key Porter Books publisher Jordan Fenn has commissioned John Lawrence Reynolds to write a new book about secret societies and their influence on world events. Shadow People: The True Stories of History’s Most Notorious Secret ... Read More »
July 27, 2005
Nicole Winstanley, subsidiary rights director at Westwood Creative Artists, has done good business in Serbia lately, selling Timothy Findley’s Pilgrim to Alfa, and Bea Gonzalez’s The Mapmaker’s Opera and Mary di Michele’s Tenor of Love ... Read More »
July 27, 2005
After a brief scare last week, librarians can rest easy knowing that the government will continue to offer them the same subsidized postage rates they’ve been receiving for the past 66 years. John McCallum, the ... Read More »
July 25, 2005
Three years after penning Midnight Cab, the tale of a young Torontonian and his strange past, James Nichol is now mystified by his first novel’s international success.Based on Nichol’s CBC radio series of the samemidnight-cab-fares-unexpectedly-well-in-germany/> ... Read More »
July 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
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