by Sue Carter

Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming December titles

Each month, Canadian library staff vote for their favourite upcoming books, via BookNet Canada’s Loan Stars readers-advisory program and the Canadian Urban Libraries Council. Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield (Bond Street Books/PRHC) A Bad ... Read More »

November 21, 2018

Sutherland House announces sales and distribution agreements

By Sue Carter

Sutherland House will be distributed by University of Toronto Press. The press’s exclusive sales agent in Canada will be Canadian Manda Group. In the U.S., Sutherland House will be represented for distribution and sales by ... Read More »

November 20, 2018

Distribution change: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

By Sue Carter

Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside will no longer distribute Inhabit Education with ISBN prefix 177266, 1987958, 0228701. Returns will be accepted until Feb. 28, 2019, in accordance with our standard returns policy. For clarification, Fitzhenry ... Read More »

November 20, 2018

Personnel change: LitDistCo

By Sue Carter

Leila Bovee-Begun has joined LitDistCo, LPG's distribution collective, as general manager. Bovee-Begun previously worked at ECW Press and Dundurn Press, ... Read More »

November 19, 2018

Quebec Superior Court approves settlement between Copibec and Université Laval over copyright

By Sue Carter

The long-running lawsuit between Université Laval and Copibec, the non-profit organization that oversees copyright licensing for Quebec’s creative-content producers, has officially concluded. An out-of-court settlement presented in June was approved on Nov. 13 by Justice ... Read More »

November 15, 2018

University of King’s College, Westwood Creative Artists, and PRHC launch MFA Prize

By Sue Carter

Graduating students and alumni from the University of King’s College’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program in Halifax are eligible for a new prize sponsored by Penguin Random House Canada and Westwood Creative ... Read More »

November 15, 2018

Dakota Fanning to star in adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness In The Belly

By Sue Carter

Principal photography kicked off last week in Dublin for the film adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s 2005 bestselling novel, Sweetness in the Belly. The film stars Dakota Fanning as a young woman raised Muslim who flees ... Read More »

November 12, 2018

Daily Deals: D&M acquires Anne Bokma’s My Year of Living Spiritually

By Sue Carter

Douglas & McIntyre editor Anna Comfor O'Keeffe has acquired Hamilton author Anne Bokma's My Year of Living Spiritually: One Woman's Secular Search for a More Soulful Life. The book, which grew out a blog Bokma wrote ... Read More »

November 8, 2018

Indigo sales decline in the second quarter; new Robson store launches with Burtynsky installation

By Sue Carter

Indigo Books & Music is reporting a 3.7 per cent sales decrease in its second quarter ending Sept. 29, down to $216.3 million from $224.6 million for the same period last year. In a statement ... Read More »

November 8, 2018

Rupi Kaur to provide foreword for Penguin Classics’s new edition of The Prophet

By Sue Carter

Super-fan Rupi Kaur has written a foreword for a new hardcover edition of Kahlil Gibran’s best known work, The Prophet. The Prophet, which is comprised of 26 prose poems, has never fallen out of print ... Read More »

November 8, 2018

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Loan Stars: Librarians pick their favourite upcoming December titles

Sutherland House announces sales and distribution agreements

Distribution change: Fitzhenry & Whiteside

Personnel change: LitDistCo

Quebec Superior Court approves settlement between Copibec and Université Laval over copyright

University of King’s College, Westwood Creative Artists, and PRHC launch MFA Prize

Dakota Fanning to star in adaptation of Camilla Gibb’s Sweetness In The Belly

Daily Deals: D&M acquires Anne Bokma’s My Year of Living Spiritually

Indigo sales decline in the second quarter; new Robson store launches with Burtynsky installation

Rupi Kaur to provide foreword for Penguin Classics’s new edition of The Prophet

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