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Simon & Schuster U.S. pays Montreal firm $500,000 for Jackson bio
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based firm that has been in the news of late for preparing to publish the first posthumous biography of Michael Jackson,...
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DK travel guides now sold as iPhone apps
While many publishers are eyeing mobile devices – iPhones, BlackBerries, and cell phones – as a lucrative emerging market for e-books, there’s still no consensus...
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Greystone teams up with pot-smoking Olympian Rebagliati
Controversial Olympic gold-medalist Ross Rebagliati has penned a new book detailing the evolution of snowboarding for Vancouver’s Greystone Books. Called Off the Chain: A Renegade...
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Pierre Turgeon returns with new Michael Jackson bio
Disgraced Montreal publisher Pierre Turgeon – who pleaded guilty last March to charges of fraud – appears to have rebounded from the bankruptcy of his...
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World’s Biggest Bookstore opens French-language boutique
Less than two months after the closing of Librairie Champlain, Toronto’s only French-language bookstore, the World’s Biggest Bookstore has launched a new “store within a...
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Tundra publisher Kathy Lowinger not quite ready to say goodbye
When it was announced earlier this week that Tundra Books publisher Kathy Lowinger will be retiring on Jan. 1, 2010, the news may have come...
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Harlequin ventures into YA market
In the hopes of capitalizing on the popularity of the Harry Potter books and the Twilight series, Harlequin Books is launching a new imprint this...
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Ellen Seligman named PEN Canada President
McClelland & Stewart vice-president and publisher Ellen Seligman has been named president of PEN Canada, the organization that advocates freedom of expression for writers and...
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CBA summer conference a success
It might not have been as big or as glamorous as BookExpo Canada, but the CBA Summer Conference was deemed an improvement by many of...
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David R. Godine pulls out of Canadian market
Earlier this month, when the Boston-based publisher David R. Godine decided to end its deal for Canadian representation with McArthur & Company, it was another...
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Westward ho! for Breakwater Books
Throughout its first 36 years in business, the St. John’s-based Breakwater Books has focused mostly on the Atlantic Canadian market, but plans are afoot to...
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Ontario coalition criticizes librarians' purchasing decisions
The Canadian Coalition for School Libraries publicly criticized Ontario schools earlier this week for failing to purchase enough Canadian-authored books. In a press release issued...
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New Ryerson courses target publishing professionals
Toronto’s Ryerson University has been offering instruction in book publishing for years, but its courses have always been geared toward industry novices, never toward publishing...
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Michael Tamblyn to leave BookNet for Shortcovers
After six years at the helm of BookNet Canada, the not-for-profit book industry sales data and “technology innovation” agency, founder and CEO Michael Tamblyn is...
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Toronto librarians could face same demands as city workers
Members of the Toronto Civic Employees Union (TCEU) Local 416 – which represents the city’s garbage collectors, water workers, and parks employees – are threatening...
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Atwood's sort-of trilogy
There appears to be some disagreement between McClelland & Stewart and Vintage Canada over the nature of Margaret Atwood’s upcoming novel, The Year of the...
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ACP to launch Canadianbookshelf
Last year, around the time Paul Quarrington’s hockey-themed novel King Leary won CBC’s Canada Reads competition, the Association of Canadian Publishers decided to try a...
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M&S, MQUP big winners in Canada Council grant sweepstakes
Once again, McClelland & Stewart is the top recipient in the Canada Council for the Art’s block grant program. The company will receive a total...
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H.B. Fenn shuffles its marketing and publicity departments
H.B. Fenn and Company has made a few changes to its publicity and marketing departments in the wake of publicist Vimala Jeevanandam’s recent departure. Former...
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On the eve of BookCamp, organizers expect the unexpected
BookCamp Toronto – the new daylong “unconference” of collaboratively organized publishing seminars – takes place this Saturday, and even the organizers aren’t exactly sure what...
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Indigo won't confirm or deny e-reader rumor
As was reported on Quillblog earlier this week, a rumour – begun by Canada AM tech reporter Kris Abel – has been floating around the...
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HarperCollins builds on Book of Negroes
Now that Lawrence Hill’s 2007 novel The Book of Negroes has become a certified blockbuster, HarperCollins Canada is hoping to capitalize on its success further...
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Moritz, Wright win Griffins
Prolific poet A. F. Moritz was awarded the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize at a gala on Wednesday night in Toronto. The author of more than...
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Canadians make the best of a low-key BEA
It looks like Reed Exhibitions’ decision to run a “smaller, smarter” BookExpo America has paid off. Canadian exhibitors who attended the annual trade show, which...
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Kids Can attempts to cater to the socially conscious
Kids Can Press has launched a new series targeted at children ages eight to 12, hoping to capitalize on the growing interest in kids’ books...
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