The Greenpeace to Amchitka, by Greenpeace founder Robert Hunter who died May 2, 2005 of prostate cancer, has won The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness. The book was published by Arsenal Pulp Press. The ... Read More »
July 19, 2005
Stacey Curtis has joined Colborne Communications as co-ordinating editor effective July ... Read More »
July 19, 2005
Broadview Press has acquired another independent Canadian higher-education publisher, Garamond Press.Based in Aurora, Ontario, just north of Toronto, Garamond, which bills itself as Canada’s first independent academic book publisher, was founded in 1981 by Peter ... Read More »
July 18, 2005
House of Anansi Press has appointed a new publisher, and confirmed a long-running rumour in doing so. Former Raincoast Books editor Lynn Henry is moving to Toronto to take over the job on August 29.In ... Read More »
July 18, 2005
Montreal may be the World Book Capital this year and home to a huge new megalibrary, the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, but its municipal library system in general is below par and it is going ... Read More »
July 18, 2005
Quebeckers are buying more books, but fewer newspapers and magazines, according to statistics released last week by the Observatoire de la culture et communications du Québec, the provincial government agency that tracks culture.Between 1998 and ... Read More »
July 18, 2005
While July 16 brought in record sales for booksellers around the world, the story of Harry Potter and the Raincoast gag order continued until the very eve of the release of Harry Potter and theglobe-celebrates-big-sales/> ... Read More »
July 18, 2005
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