Nimbus Publishing will no longer be distributing Chelsea Green Publishing. Returns ... Read More »
July 9, 2004
Orca Book Publishers is moving offices. Its new office address will be 1016 Balmoral Road, Victoria, BC, V8T 1A8. Its mailing address remains: Orca Book Publishers, PO Box 5626, Stn. B, Victoria, BC, V8R 6S4. E-mail addresses ... Read More »
July 9, 2004
Nick Durie has been named editorial assistant, Jennifer Wymer administrative assistant, and Jessica Coffey editorial and permissions assistant; all three will be ... Read More »
July 9, 2004
Word on the Street Vancouver is confident that it will be successful in appealing a decision by the province’s gaming commission to deny the annual festival $15,000 in funding.The commission, which distributes funds collected at ... Read More »
July 8, 2004
The province of Ontario dropped four weapons charges against author Stephen Williams this week, all of them relating to the careless storing of a shotgun and rifle. “They withdrew the charges because they had absolutely ... Read More »
July 8, 2004
Two high-profile Toronto book packagers, Otherwise Editions and Madison Press Books, have decided to team up on future projects.Under the deal, Madison has the right of first refusal on any projects conceived by Otherwise principal ... Read More »
July 8, 2004
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre has announced the finalists for the sixth annual Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. This year's winner, who will collect a $10,000 prize, the largest of its kind in ... Read More »
July 6, 2004
The publishing department of Raincoast Books has laid off two people, choosing to address profitability problems by trimming a department that is, in the words of publisher Michelle Benjamin, “somewhat overstaffed” instead of reducing the ... Read More »
July 5, 2004
Governor-General’s Award winner Jane Urquhart's next novel, A Map of Glass, has been placed with publisher Ellen Seligman at McClelland & Stewart. The book contains parallel stories, one set in contemporary Toronto, and the other ... Read More »
July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
David Caron, the longtime executive director of the Literary Press Group, announced Monday that he is stepping down to join ECW Press as associate publisher.In an e-mail to member publishers, Caron said he felt “mixed ... Read More »
July 5, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
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