The Canadian National Section of the International Board on Books for Young People - better known as IBBY Canada - has announced the winners of three major awards. Catherine Mitchell, director of foreign and special ... Read More »
Effective immediately, CRISP Learning materials will no longer be distributed to the retail and wholesale book trade by CRISP Learning Canada. Returns may be made to CRISP Learning Canada, 60 Briarwood Ave., Mississauga Ontario, L5G ... Read More »
April 5, 2005
Last weekend’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Vancouver was, by all accounts, a success, and Canadian publishers say the event, held in Canada for the first time ever, proved an excellent ... Read More »
April 4, 2005
Catholic and general trade booksellers are seeing a big bounce in interest in books about and by Pope John Paul II following his death Saturday.While most say it is still to early too say how ... Read More »
April 4, 2005
A novel written more than 60 years ago that produced a great buzz at recent international book fairs could be a model of how Canadian publishers should market translation and foreign rights. So said Bill ... Read More »
April 4, 2005
With sales “dropping like a stone,” The Porcupine’s Quill will be reducing its staff and list for 2006 and 2007, says president Tim Inkster. An intern position will be eliminated and five freelancers will have ... Read More »
March 31, 2005
Only 48% of Canadian households spent money on books in 2001, and high-income households accounted for nearly half of all the money spent on books, according to a recently released analysis of Statistics Canada’s 2001 ... Read More »
March 31, 2005
For more than a year now, literary agent Don Sedgwick has been busily organizing what he hopes will be a good kick in the pants for the publishing industry. The New Face of Publishing Workshop, ... Read More »
March 31, 2005
The nominees for this year's CBA Libris Awards are out, and Alice Munro and Miriam Toews are facing off in both the fiction book of the year and author of the year categories. The winners ... Read More »
March 31, 2005
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