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Personnel change: The Rights Factory adds new associate agent

The Rights Factory has hired Haskell Nussbaum as an associate agent. Nussbaum, who recently returned to Toronto from New York, is already shopping around three titles in Canada: Starting Over at 24, a memoir by ... Read More »

June 28, 2012

Deals: HarperCollins Canada acquires non-fiction by Ann Dowsett Johnston; Ava Lee series picked up by Picador; and more

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*Karen Rinaldi, senior vice-president and executive editor at HarperCollins U.S., has acquired world rights to The Drinking Diaries: Inside the Intimate World of Women and Alcohol by veteran Canadian journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston. The book is ... Read More »

June 27, 2012

HarperCollins takes first steps toward global publishing approach with HarperCollins 360

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Next month, HarperCollins begins the rollout of HarperCollins 360, a global distribution program for English-language markets. The initiative will make titles published by all HarperCollins divisions available for ebook and print-on-demand distribution into any English-language ... Read More »

June 25, 2012

Connecting with consumers and building brands were focuses of Book Summit 2012

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With so many titles on the market, how do readers make choices? Cynthia Good, director of creative book publishing at Humber College in Toronto, posed this question during her opening remarks at Book Summit 2012, ... Read More »

June 25, 2012

New Random House of Canada division streamlines operations and office space

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On Wednesday, Random House of Canada president and CEO Brad Martin announced the formation of a new publishing division. The McClelland & Stewart Doubleday Canada Publishing Group merges the McClelland & Stewart and Doubleday Canada ... Read More »

June 21, 2012

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires Mary-Ann Kirkby’s Hutterite cookbook; film deals for Sarah Leavitt, Shauna Singh Baldwin; and more

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Goose Lane Editions has acquired world rights to Tamai Kobayashi’s Prairie Ostrich, about two Japanese-Canadian sisters growing up on an ostrich farm in 1974. The novel is set for publication in spring 2013. Margaret Hart ... Read More »

June 20, 2012

New owner, expanded location for Creemore’s Curiosity House Bookstore

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Ralph Hicks isn’t settling for Curiosity House Bookstore & Gallery’s place on CBC Books’ community-chosen list of top 10 independent bookstores in Canada. He wants to make the Creemore, Ontario, shop the best in the ... Read More »

June 19, 2012

Personnel change: Kelsey Attard joins Freehand Books as managing editor

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Kelsey Attard will join Freehand Books as managing editor, effective July 4. Attard has previously worked as an editor at Lone Pine Publishing and as a program coordinator with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She ... Read More »

June 18, 2012

Canadian Women in the Literary Arts releases first study of gender parity in Canada’s book media

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A new national organization advocating for women’s voices in Canadian literary criticism launched this week with a study of gender parity in Canada’s book media. Canadian Women in the Literary Arts published the results of ... Read More »

June 14, 2012

Deals: Knopf Canada to publish Jiang Weiping’s expose of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai; and more

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Louise Dennys, executive publisher of Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group, has acquired Knocking Down the House by Jiang Weiping, written with Charles Foran. The book will be an account of the dramatic rise and fall ... Read More »

June 13, 2012

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Personnel change: The Rights Factory adds new associate agent

Deals: HarperCollins Canada acquires non-fiction by Ann Dowsett Johnston; Ava Lee series picked up by Picador; and more

HarperCollins takes first steps toward global publishing approach with HarperCollins 360

Connecting with consumers and building brands were focuses of Book Summit 2012

New Random House of Canada division streamlines operations and office space

Deals: Penguin Canada acquires Mary-Ann Kirkby’s Hutterite cookbook; film deals for Sarah Leavitt, Shauna Singh Baldwin; and more

New owner, expanded location for Creemore’s Curiosity House Bookstore

Personnel change: Kelsey Attard joins Freehand Books as managing editor

Canadian Women in the Literary Arts releases first study of gender parity in Canada’s book media

Deals: Knopf Canada to publish Jiang Weiping’s expose of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai; and more

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