In a meeting on May 27, shareholders of Indigo Books and Music voted in favour of a takeover bid by Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments I.P. The company announced on February 1 that the ... Read More »
May 29, 2024
Cassie Smyth, ECW Press's audiobooks manager, is adding publicist to her title. Smyth will ... Read More »
May 29, 2024
Dan French has joined Simon & Schuster Canada as vice president, marketing and communications, starting June 17. In his new role, French will report directly to publisher Nicole Winstanley. French joins S&S from Penguin Random ... Read More »
May 29, 2024
Simon & Schuster Canada’s Jim Gifford has acquired world rights to NBA broadcaster Eric Smith and Ghent University professor Andrew Bricker’s We the Raptors. The nonfiction book is described as a one-of-a-kind celebration of the Toronto ... Read More »
May 27, 2024
Quebec author Caroline Dawson has died. Dawson, who was born in Chile in 1979 and immigrated with her family to Quebec when she was seven, is the author of As the Andes Disappeared, an autobiographical ... Read More »
May 23, 2024
More than 10 Canadians have been nominated for the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. Ashley Spires, Emily Carroll, Jeff Lemire, Chris Oliveros, Mariko Tamaki and Jilian Tamaki are among the nominees in 32 categories. ... Read More »
May 21, 2024
Three books have been named finalists for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. The books were selected from an 11-book longlist announced last month. The annual award for literary humour grants a $25,000 prize to ... Read More »
May 21, 2024
Francine Yulo has been promoted to the position of marketing and sales manager at Drawn & Quarterly, effective immediately. Yulo first joined D&Q as a bookseller in 2020, and was promoted to editorial assistant to ... Read More »
May 21, 2024
RE:Books’s Rebecca Eckler has acquired world rights to Aviva Rubin’s White. The novel is described as a tale of overcoming prejudice, complicated relationships, and an undercover exposé on Canadian bigoted groups, that delves into the ... Read More »
May 16, 2024
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