Last week was a good one for Toronto children’s author Kenneth Oppel. His novel Sunwing won a new children’s choice award in Alberta, and he’s racked up three more foreign rights sales for that book ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
McClelland & Stewart has named a replacement for departed director of publicity Kelly Hechler. Laura Cameron, most recently of Chapters Online, will start in the position next Monday, June 18.Chris Keen, M&S’s sales and marketing ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Brent James has joined abebooks.com, the Victoria-based online bookselling network, in the newly created position of president and CEO. Founders Keith Waters and Rick Pura, who had been sharing the task of managing the company, ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Growing pressure on publishers to offer deep discounts to their largest customers is generating concern among writers over a standard contract feature – the “net receipts clause” – that lowers royalties on high-discount sales.Normally royalties ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Two Alberta scholarly presses appointed new directors last month – one by promoting from within, and one by luring back a Canadian working in Jamaican publishing.Walter Hildebrandt took over as University of Calgary Press’s director ... Read More »
Quebec novelist Jacques Poulin has won the $50,000 Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize – an honour that his admirers are hoping will boost his profile outside his home province.Although the francophone Poulin is ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Over the next three years, the federal Liberal government has set aside $9.5-million for “transitional funding” for a battered publishing trade. But Allan Clarke, director of Canadian Heritage’s book publishing section, says cash-strapped publishers will ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
Key Porter Books has laid off one member of its editorial staff, citing a need to cut costs, but editor-in-chief Clare McKeon says rumours of more wide-ranging layoffs are exaggerated.McKeon, who declined to name the ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
In person, she is a woman of few words, but Montreal poet Anne Carson delivered some well-chosen ones last night at a gala in Toronto as she accepted the Canadian portion of the Griffin Poetry ... Read More »
February 5, 2004
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