Search Results by tag: Bertelsmann

Lisa Moore nominated for Winterset Award

Two authors and a poet have been nominated for this year's BMO Winterset Award, which celebrates excellence in Newfoundland writing. The nominees are: Lisa Moore, for her novel Caught (House of Anansi Press); Paul Bowdring, ... Read More »

March 4, 2014 | Filed under: Awards

Small presses expand translated fiction market, Toronto’s Book City’s literary alumni, and more

By Emma Renda

Translated fiction finding support at small presses Former employees of Toronto's Book City share stories Forbes predicts more consolidation in book publishing in 2014 Moleskine and Twitter celebrate 36th annual national handwriting day Montreal niche publisher Sternthal excels ... Read More »

January 24, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Spring preview 2014: international books

By Becky Robertson

Fiction Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees, offers a portrait of gender and race relations in 19th-century America in The Invention of Wings (Viking, $29.50 cl., Jan.), which tells the intertwined ... Read More »

January 23, 2014 | Filed under: Preview

X-Files star writing sci-fi series, the future of midlist authors, and more

By Emma Renda

Gillian Anderson of X-Files fame to write science fiction series Are mid-list authors disappearing? Alice Munro to virtually attend Selected Shorts series in NY Ottawa's literary scene celebrates milestones and rebirth in 2014 Story Prize announces short-fiction ... Read More »

January 16, 2014 | Filed under: Book links

Is a merger in the works for Penguin and Random House?

By Sue Carter

Are the big six publishers about to become the giant five? According to the Financial Times, Bertelsmann and Pearson are in talks to merge their respective publishing divisions, Random House and Penguin. If a deal ... Read More »

October 25, 2012 | Filed under: Industry news

Random House Television launched

By Katie Gowrie

Random House and FremantleMedia, two companies owned by the media corporation Bertelsmann AG, have partnered to launch Random House Television “ a new project that will develop television content from Random House books. Galleycat quotes ... Read More »

July 26, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Random House calls off its annual Frankfurt party

By Stuart Woods

In yet another sign of financial turmoil, Random House parent company Bertelsmann has cancelled its annual Frankfurt Book Fair soiree “ long a staple of the fall publishing calendar, and the one Frankfurt party everyone ... Read More »

August 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Recession woes for Borders UK and Bertelsmann

By Stuart Woods

There are more signs this week that the beleaguered book-selling chain Borders UK could be up for sale. On Thursday, The Independent reported that owner Luke Johnson has hired a corporate finance firm to seek ... Read More »

June 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Secrets of the Canadian literary cabal

By Alison Jones

Stephen Henighan, known for his biting, if occasionally conspiracy-minded, commentary on the Canadian literary scene, takes aim at the Scotiabank Giller Prize in this column for Geist. Henighan calls the prize a symptom of the ... Read More »

January 23, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Book news, Opinion

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