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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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Deals: New books about Gaza, Sister Ping, and the trouble with Canada
Random House Canada publisher Anne Collins has acquired an as-yet-untitled memoir – written with Canadian author, filmmaker, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong – by...
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Nikiforuk nominated for Grantham Prize
Andrew Nikiforuk’s Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent (Greystone Books) has been nominated for the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting...
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Distribution change: R&S Books
D&M Publishers will no longer be handling Canadian distribution of R&S Books (ISBN prefix 978-91-29). Returns will be accepted until Sept. 30, 2009. ...
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Ridley, Barwin win bpNichol chapbook award
Poets Sandra Ridley and Gary Barwin were named co-winners of the 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award in a ceremony in Toronto last week. Ridley won...
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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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BookNet bestsellers: Gay Fiction
Now that Toronto's Pride Day is over for another year – and with several other Pride Days set to take place in other Canadian cities...
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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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Deals: Ken Finkleman's "darkly comic" first novel, and more
HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired the first novel by screenwriter, director, and actor Ken Finkleman, best known as the creator of the...
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Distribution change: Heineman/Raintree
Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Heineman/Raintree hardcovers, previously available from Saunders Book Company. The relevant ISBN prefixes are as...
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Distribution change: Landauer Publishing
Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Landauer Publishing and its related lines. The relevant ISBN prefixes are: 978-0-0981804 (Landauer); 978-0-9540928...
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Distribution change: Verve Publications
Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Verve Publications. The relevant ISBN prefix is 978-0-9769127. ...
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Distribution change: Raventree Publications
Effective immediately, Fitzhenry & Whiteside is the exclusive Canadian distributor for Raventree Publications. The relevant ISBN prefix is 978-1-934960.
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R. Bruce Elder wins Robert Motherwell award
R. Bruce Elder has been named the winner of the Robert Motherwell Book Award for his book Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements...
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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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