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Out of Africa

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Journalist and human rights activist Ken Wiwa's new work of non-fiction has been sold to Penguin Canada publisher David Davidar. Last Train to Azania finds Wiwa travelling around Africa, his birthplace, in order to better ... Read More »

August 18, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Foreign front

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Akka Janssen, subsidiary rights manager at HarperCollins Canada, has the U.K. rights to Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter’s The Rebel Sell to Wiley; Canadian French-language rights to Kim Zarzour’s The Schoolyard Bully to Bayard Canada; ... Read More »

August 18, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Galloping sales in Scandinavia

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Canadian author Sharon Siamon’s Mustang Mountain series for young adults has sold a remarkable 850,000 copies since it was first launched in Europe in 1999. But with 85% of its sales in languages other than ... Read More »

August 17, 2004

Snapshot: Oliver Salzmann

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Oliver Salzmann is back. In May, he became the new publisher at Madison Press Books after eight years abroad. Salzmann spent most of that time as the publisher of Quintet, a division of the British ... Read More »

August 17, 2004

Attendance up at BEC and BEA

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The actual growth in attendance at this year’s BookExpo Canada was relatively slight: official numbers released by Reed Exhibition Companies show a 9% rise over last year. But the increased energy level, buzz, and goodwill ... Read More »

August 17, 2004

Copyright tops post-election agenda

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A few days after the debates in June’s federal election, ACTRA, the performers’ union, staged a high-profile, star-studded media event intended to draw attention to cultural issues generally, and the Conservative Party’s positions on Canadian ... Read More »

August 17, 2004