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The most recent 25 items in the NEWS category are below. To find something specific, please use the search box, or choose a different category from the left-hand list.
Bruce Walsh joins Cormorant
Bruce Walsh, the former vice-president of marketing for the LongPen, will head up sales, marketing, and non-fiction acquisition at Cormorant Books, effective Sept. 2. Furthermore,... Read the rest »
Closing time at I.V. Lounge
After 10 years, two anthologies, and more than 700 readings, Toronto’s I.V. Lounge Reading Series is coming to an end. According to organizer Alex Boyd,... Read the rest »
Montreal Gazette confirms cuts to books coverage
Montreal Gazette editor-in-chief Andrew Phillips has confirmed that there will be permanent cuts made to the paper’s books section at the end of September. Phillips... Read the rest »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: varmints and valiants
There’s a mass market showdown a brewin’ in this week’s bestseller listings, which cover the top 20 western novels for the two weeks ending August... Read the rest »
Gov’t puts $5-million into book translation, neglects to tell anybody
With all the bad press the Tory government has been getting of late regarding cuts to arts funding, you would think they’d be desperate to... Read the rest »
More to come from Munro
A collection of new Alice Munro stories is set to appear in September of 2009. Titled Too Much Happiness, the book will be published by... Read the rest »
BookNet safe from BPIDP cuts, for now
When word got out earlier this week that the Department of Canadian Heritage plans to cut $2-million over the next two years from the Book... Read the rest »
Great Plains to expand teen fiction imprint
Winnipeg’s Great Plains Publications has hired author Anita Daher to oversee and expand its five-year-old teen fiction imprint. Under Daher’s leadership, the imprint – which... Read the rest »
Heritage planning BPIDP cuts
There hasn’t been any official word as of yet, but Q&Q Omni has learned that the Department of Canadian Heritage is planning a cut of... Read the rest »
TINARS to add kids' programming
The Toronto bookstore Pages is expanding its popular This Is Not a Reading Series to include a monthly program for the preschool and early elementary... Read the rest »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: sports
It’s Olympics time, so this week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 sports and recreation titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 10, 2008, as... Read the rest »
Globe Books section to take two-week hiatus
Eagle-eyed readers of The Globe and Mail may have spotted a tiny notice in last Saturday’s paper explaining that the weekly Books section would be... Read the rest »
Axed travel grants leaving publishers and agents at loose ends
Publishers and literary agents affected by the government’s decision to axe PromArt, the $4.7-million arts subsidy administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International... Read the rest »
Babiak moving to HarperCollins
After two books with McClelland & Stewart – Giller-longlisted The Garneau Block and The Book of Stanley – Edmonton author Todd Babiak has moved to... Read the rest »
Neale to retire from Random House
Random House of Canada announced yesterday that chairman John Neale will retire at the end of this year. Neale, an industry veteran of more than... Read the rest »
Toronto Star cuts books section in half
The Toronto Star has chopped its Sunday Books section from four pages to two, in a cost-cutting move. Books editor Dan Smith says the... Read the rest »
New OAC database is just a start, say publishers
A new initiative spearheaded by the Ontario Arts Council could soon make grant applications easier for publishers – but not soon enough for some.... Read the rest »
Around-the-world journey gets book treatment (again)
Last year, two former friends named Colin Angus and Tim Harvey found themselves on opposite sides of a publishing-world war, with each man planning to... Read the rest »
Urquhart responds to criticisms of short story collection
Author Jane Urquhart, who edited last year’s The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, has responded to criticisms of the anthology that have come from... Read the rest »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: kids’ books
This week’s bestseller listings cover the top 20 juvenile titles for the two weeks ending Aug. 3, 2008, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData.... Read the rest »
Litmags take on Urquhart's Penguin anthology
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, edited by author Jane Urquhart, is encountering blowback from two well-known literary magazines. The new issues of... Read the rest »
Winnipeg author compiles soundtrack for debut novel
When Daria Salamon’s debut novel, The Prairie Bridesmaid (Key Porter Books), hits shelves on Saturday, each copy will bear a sticker with a PIN code,... Read the rest »
Abebooks says it will operate completely separately from Amazon
The Victoria-based online used book site Abebooks.com has been bought by the U.S. online retail giant Amazon – but a company rep insists that it’s... Read the rest »
Andrew Pyper novel gets transit TV screen promotion
Video book promotion has become common online, but a Random House of Canada campaign is bringing the approach to a new venue. Over the next... Read the rest »
Ami McKay branches out into theatre
A full-length play by Ami McKay, author of the hit novel The Birth House, opened last Saturday near Canning, Nova Scotia. Jerome: The Historical Spectacle... Read the rest »
