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Is a merger in the works for Penguin and Random House?

Are the big six publishers about to become the giant five? According to the Financial Times, Bertelsmann and Pearson are in talks to merge their respective publishing divisions, Random House and Penguin. If a deal ... Read More »

October 25, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Esi Edugyan signs with HarperCollins Canada

By Sue Carter

Almost a year after Esi Edugyan won the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Half-Blood Blues (Thomas Allen Publishers) comes news that her third novel will be the first published by HarperCollins Canada's new imprint, Patrick ... Read More »

October 24, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Q&A: Goose Lane launches new poetry imprint, Icehouse Press

By Sue Carter

Fredericton's Goose Lane Editions, which printed its first poetry collection, The Stunted Strong by Fred Cogswell, in 1954, is shaking things up with a new imprint called Icehouse Press. Icehouse is run by a multi-city ... Read More »

October 2, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

J.K. Rowling non-disclosure agreement gets meta

By Steven W. Beattie

Anyone who works with books will be familiar with the increasingly ubiquitous non-disclosure agreement prohibiting media from divulging the contents of upcoming titles prior to publication day. Recently, the contents of Salman Rushdie's new memoir, ... Read More »

September 24, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Bob Dylan says he’s working on volume two of his memoirs

By Steven W. Beattie

At 71 years of age, Bob Dylan shows no signs of slowing down. He's just released his 35th studio album, Tempest, and he's about to embark upon a North American tour with singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler. ... Read More »

September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Michael Winter’s forthcoming novel strikes out in new direction

By Steven W. Beattie

Michael Winter is a writer who is known for taking chances. Widely praised as a stylistic virtuoso, his last novel, 2010's The Death of Donna Whalen, blended fact and fiction to tell the story of ... Read More »

September 17, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Deals, Industry news

Penguin to publish Sheila Watt-Cloutier memoir

By Steven W. Beattie

Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier has been awarded the Order of Canada and, in 2007, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize (the Nobel eventually went to former U.S. vice-president turned environmental activist Al Gore). ... Read More »

September 10, 2012 | Filed under: Authors, Deals, Industry news

Controversial Thomas Jefferson book finds new life courtesy of Glenn Beck

By Steven W. Beattie

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government ... Read More »

August 20, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Google to buy Frommer’s brand from Wiley

By Natalie Samson

Google has announced it will acquire Frommer's series of travel guidebooks from current publisher John Wiley & Sons. The deal will expand Google's investment in local hospitality reviews and ratings, reports The Wall Street Journal. ... Read More »

August 13, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology, Industry news

Penguin Canada to halt sales of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine

By Sue Carter

In light of news that author Jonah Lehrer fabricated quotes in his bestseller, Imagine: The Science of Creativity, his U.S. publisher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, announced it is halting sales of the book. Lehrer's Canadian publisher, ... Read More »

July 31, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

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Is a merger in the works for Penguin and Random House?

Esi Edugyan signs with HarperCollins Canada

Q&A: Goose Lane launches new poetry imprint, Icehouse Press

J.K. Rowling non-disclosure agreement gets meta

Bob Dylan says he’s working on volume two of his memoirs

Michael Winter’s forthcoming novel strikes out in new direction

Penguin to publish Sheila Watt-Cloutier memoir

Controversial Thomas Jefferson book finds new life courtesy of Glenn Beck

Google to buy Frommer’s brand from Wiley

Penguin Canada to halt sales of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine

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