Rights deals: Three foreign deals for Kallie George
Independent bookstore sales: the 25 top-selling Canadian titles of 2025
Bookmanager provided Q&Q with sales data for all Canadian-authored titles and for the top-selling titles published by Canadian-owned companies.
New AI writing tool to help users avoid anti-Indigenous bias
The tool, wâsikan kisewâtisiwin, which means kind electricity in Cree, uses an Indigenous-world-view-informed language model to highlight unintentional anti-Indigenous bias in written works and offer suggestions for how to avoid them.
Canada’s book community shares their favourite young readers titles of 2025
Personnel change: Drawn & Quarterly
Kids Can Press condemns unauthorized use of Franklin the Turtle
The character “stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” says Kids Can Press.
Ripple Foundation’s annual Kids Write 4 Kids contest open for entries
Contest winners will have their creative work published in print and as ebooks that will be available on platforms such as Amazon, Apple Books, Google Play Books, and OverDrive.
Distribution change: Greystone Books
Baraka Books to launch nonfiction chapbook imprint
Editor Leila Marshy says the Traction imprint will be a “forum for ideas and exchange of ideas.”
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