As a result of declining sales from Kids Can Press’s Franklin books, publisher Valerie Hussey says the firm is putting more of an emphasis on sales and marketing in an attempt “to put forward just ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
» He always told funny stories, really about himself. Once he locked himself out of a hotel room – I can’t remember what city that was in – and he went downstairs to the desk, ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
Canada lost one of its most important authors in late November, as heart failure took the life of Pierre Berton. He was 84.During his long career, Berton wore several hats, and to some Canadians he ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
The last time I saw Pierre Berton was in June 2004, at BookExpo Canada in Toronto. The old warrior was in a wheelchair, and looked far more frail than he did in the photos that ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
Google Print, the prospective new online search tool for books, is drawing mixed reviews from Canadian publishers. After the formal unveiling of the program at the Frankfurt Book Fair last October, many English-language publishers say ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
For Canadian publishers and booksellers, the 2005 spring season may well be remembered as a historic period. Though no specific date has been set, BookNet Canada CEO Michael Tamblyn says it’s likely that the agency’s ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
Since becoming an associate agent at Transatlantic Literary Agency last January, Samantha Haywood has assembled a list of clients that includes journalist Elaine Dewar and author Martha Baillie and has sold a graphic narrative, Rosalind ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
There was no tipping point for “the tipping point.” The epidemiology term that Elmira, Ontario-raised author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell used for the title of his 2000 book, which explored how social phenomena build slowly ... Read More »
January 13, 2005 | Filed under: Book news
In mid-November, a well-dressed segment of Toronto’s intelligentsia packed into Key Porter publisher Anna Porter’s Moore Park home for the launch of Farley Mowat’s new book, No Man’s River. As guests made their way into ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
Alma Lee first envisioned her retirement more than four years ago. But there was one major obstacle for the founder and artistic director of the Vancouver International Writers Festival: she had to convince the board ... Read More »
January 13, 2005
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