by Cassandra Drudi

Indigo agrees to Trilogy takeover

Indigo Books and Music has agreed to go private. The company announced on February 1 that Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments I.P. – personal holdings companies of Indigo board member Gerald W. Schwartz, ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Book Making: Putting a fine point on it

By Cassandra Drudi

To call humour writer Eli Burnstein a dedicated splitter of hairs would be an understatement. In his forthcoming book, Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning (Union Square & Co., April ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Distribution change: Willow Creek Press

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective April 1, 2024, Firefly Books, Distributed Lines is the Canadian distributor for Willow Creek Press, based in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Orders will be accepted as of April 1, and shipping of Willow Creek press titles will ... Read More »

April 3, 2024

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

By Cassandra Drudi

Deborah Sun de la Cruz has been promoted to executive editor of Penguin Canada. Sun de la Cruz has been at Penguin Random House Canada for more than 10 years and was named a 2021 ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Agency and distribution change: Chalkboard Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

As of April 1, Ampersand Inc. is the Canadian sales representative ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

By Cassandra Drudi

Frances Yackel has joined P.S. Literary Agency as literary assistant. She ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Rights deals: Moira Welsh and Scott Chantler

By Cassandra Drudi

ECW Press’s Pia Singhal has acquired world rights to award-winning investigative journalist Moira Welsh’s The Astonishing Lives of Older Women: In a World Meant for Money and Men. The nonfiction book is described as a ... Read More »

April 2, 2024

Rights Deals: Donald Sutherland, Joseph Wilson + three more

By Cassandra Drudi

Viking Canada has acquired Canadian rights to Donald Sutherland’s Made Up, But Still True. The memoir is described as a generation-defining book that catalogs with powerful detail the actor’s far too many brushes with death, ... Read More »

March 28, 2024

Distribution change: Rising Action Publishing

By Cassandra Drudi

Effective June 1, Simon & Schuster will ... Read More »

March 28, 2024

Book Publishers’ Association of Alberta launches accessible eBook collection

By Cassandra Drudi

A new online resource is bringing more than 800 accessible ebooks from Alberta to readers. Accessible Alberta: eBooks for Everyone, launched this week by the Book Publishers' Association of Alberta (BPAA), is touted as the ... Read More »

March 27, 2024

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Indigo agrees to Trilogy takeover

Book Making: Putting a fine point on it

Distribution change: Willow Creek Press

Personnel change: Penguin Random House Canada

Agency and distribution change: Chalkboard Publishing

Personnel change: P.S. Literary Agency

Rights deals: Moira Welsh and Scott Chantler

Rights Deals: Donald Sutherland, Joseph Wilson + three more

Distribution change: Rising Action Publishing

Book Publishers’ Association of Alberta launches accessible eBook collection

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