After more than 30 years in the book business, many of them at the UBC ... Read More »
October 4, 2004
Gloria Goodman, rights co-ordinator for Random House Canada, has announced she will retire on Dec. 22.Goodman joined the company in October 1996 as the rights co-ordinator and the assistant to the associate publisher for Doubleday ... Read More »
October 4, 2004
Krystyna Ross, the former vice-president and general manager at McClelland & Stewart, has a new job at Oxford University Press Canada, as the vice-president and director of the trade and reference division, beginning Oct. 4.In ... Read More »
October 4, 2004
Allan MacDougall, the president and CEO of Raincoast Books, was named the Pacific region's entrepreneur of the year in the media and entertainment category by Ernst & Young. MacDougall beat Hannes Blum and Boris Wertz ... Read More »
October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
A bestselling spring release and the fall’s most anticipated novel top the list of Canadian literary fiction expected to attract attention from foreign publishers at next week’s Frankfurt Book Fair.Still the most important international rights ... Read More »
September 30, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Doubleday Canada is creating a new imprint for its international authors, though it has no plans to increase its staff or the number of books it publishes each season.Named for the Toronto street where Doubleday ... Read More »
September 30, 2004
Former comrades in the insurance business Paul Wilson and Terry Kalnins should know a thing or two about risk – nevertheless, they've taken a chance and opened an independent genre bookstore in Waterloo, Ontario.The store, ... Read More »
September 30, 2004
Earlier this week, inside Toronto City Hall council chambers, the political hustle and bustle subsided for a moment – 15 minutes, to be exact – in order to make room for a special presentation: the ... Read More »
September 30, 2004
Alex Schultz, senior editor at McClelland & Stewart, has purchased world rights to Amy Knight’s How The Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies. Knight is an expert in Soviet ... Read More »
September 29, 2004
Barbara Berson, senior editor at Penguin Canada, has bought rights to Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor’s The Canadians. To be published in 2007, the book is MacGregor’s attempt to define Canada and its people ... Read More »
September 29, 2004
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