Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam was aware that shipping costs were an issue for West Coast retailers, but it wasn’t until he met with a group of Vancouver Island booksellers that he realized the ... Read More »
July 9, 2015
High-profile culinary personalities and Big Five publishers dominate this year's Taste Canada food-writing award shortlists. Chefs Jamie Kennedy, Michael Smith, and Jennifer McLagan are among the English-language finalists, with publisher HarperCollins Canada receiving six nominations. ... Read More »
July 7, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
Joan Didion "makes great reading if you want to learn about doing what a man’s gotta do" Man Booker International Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize merge to create £50,000 award Hachette Australia seeking ink-free ... Read More »
July 7, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman may have been "discovered" years earlier than reported How Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel Dune changed the world (and paved the way for Luke Skywalker) It's easy to be ... Read More »
July 3, 2015 | Filed under: Book links
On June 26, Simon Brault celebrated his first anniversary as Canada Council for the Arts' director and CEO, marking a year of dramatic transition for the arms-length national funding organization. In January, Brault announced a ... Read More »
July 2, 2015
For the first time, Access Copyright, Canada’s copyright licensing agency, has added representatives from outside the content-creation and publishing sectors to its board of directors. According to Access Copyright executive director Roanie Levy, the new ... Read More »
June 24, 2015
Small presses and debut writers dominated the Ontario Trillium Book awards, which took place Wednesday night at the Toronto Reference Library's Bram and Bluma Appel Salon. Toronto playwright and poet Kate Cayley won the $20,000 ... Read More »
June 17, 2015 | Filed under: Awards
How Marvin Orbach's passion for collecting Canadian poetry became his legacy and gift to the country he loved Marvin Orbach was only 17 years old when he began collecting books of English-language Canadian poetry, starting ... Read More »
June 8, 2015
Publishers Group Canada is adding the following publishers to its list: Effective immediately, Hispabooks Publishing (contemporary Spanish fiction in English-language translation) and Brooklyn comics publisher Secret Acres. Effective July 15, it will distribute Catapult, an ... Read More »
June 1, 2015
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