by Cassandra Drudi

Lakeside Book Company acquires Marquis Book Printing

Lakeside Book Company has acquired Canadian printer Marquis Book Printing. Lakeside announced the acquisition on June 1. It is the book division of LSC Communications, which was spun off of R.R. Donnelley in 2016 to ... Read More »

June 7, 2023

Opinion: Implications of the U.S. controlled digital lending decision in Canada remain unclear

By Cassandra Drudi

Earlier this year, U.S. district court ruled that San Francisco–based non-profit Internet Archive (IA) infringed the copyright of four international publishing houses when it loaned unlicensed digital copies of books online, a practice known as ... Read More »

June 7, 2023

Riddle Fence Debuts announces inaugural titles

By Cassandra Drudi

Riddle Fence Debuts, the St. John's-based imprint of the literary magazine of the same name, has announced three acquisitions for its inaugural year of publishing. The first three titles under the imprint are poetry collections, ... Read More »

June 5, 2023

Rights Deals: Steve Murphy and Adrian So

By Cassandra Drudi

Nimbus Publishing nonfiction editor Angela Mombourquette has acquired Steve Murphy’s Murphy’s Logic: Insights from 45 Years in the News Business. The nonfiction book is described as a collection of the beloved CTV Atlantic broadcaster’s opinions ... Read More »

June 5, 2023

Rights Deals: Laurent Dagenais, Christina Cooke + five more

By Cassandra Drudi

Robert Rose senior editor Meredith Dees has acquired world English rights to Laurent Dagenais’s Always Hungry! The cookbook is described as featuring 70 recipes — 20 which have gone viral — from the chef and ... Read More »

June 2, 2023

Cooper Skjeie, Zak Jones named 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award winners

By Cassandra Drudi

Saskatoon-based poet and teacher Cooper Skjeie and Toronto-based writer and teacher Zak Jones have been named the winners of the $10,000 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers for poetry and short fiction, respectively. The winners ... Read More »

June 1, 2023

Personnel changes: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Megan Konzelman has joined Penguin Random House Canada as publicist, lifestyle, and reports to Michelle Arbus. She will be responsible for publicity for Appetite and Penguin’s lifestyle lists, as well as for publicity for Clarkson Potter, ... Read More »

June 1, 2023

Rights Deals: Eternity Martis, Marty Chan + two more

By Cassandra Drudi

McClelland & Stewart’s Haley Cullingham has acquired Canadian English rights to Eternity Martis’s White Lies. The debut novel is described as a darkly humourous satire-drama inspired by a culture of white women behaving badly (and ... Read More »

May 29, 2023

Distribution change: 1517 Media

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective immediately, 1517 Media (Beaming Books, Broadleaf Books & Fortress Press) will be distributed in Canada by Jaguar Book Group, ... Read More »

May 29, 2023

Toronto teacher-librarian wins inaugural Frances Lincoln Children’s Librarian Prize

By Cassandra Drudi

Toronto teacher-librarian Krista Spence has been named the inaugural winner of the Frances Lincoln Children's Librarian Prize. The award, administered by Quarto Group imprint Frances Lincoln Children's Books, recognizes a children's or teen librarian who ... Read More »

May 25, 2023

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