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Proposed changes to GGs receive mixed reviews from kidlit community

The Canada Council for the Arts is proposing changes to the children’s literature section of the Governor General’s Literary Awards, but not everyone in the kidlit community is happy about the plan....

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HarperCollins partners with Scribd for ebook subscription service

HarperCollins has partnered with document-sharing website Scribd on a new ebook subscription service. Dubbed “Netflix for ebooks,” subscribers pay $8.99 a month for the ability to check out an...

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BitLit signs HarperCollins as first multinational publishing partner

Canada’s newest book startup, BitLit, has made inroads with the multinational publishing industry, today announcing it has signed HarperCollins (U.S.) as the latest publisher to offer titles on the...

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HarperCollins Canada moves distribution to U.S., lays off president and CEO...

HarperCollins announced today it is letting go HarperCollins Canada president and CEO David Kent in a wave of “consolidation” that will see the firm’s Canadian distribution operation outsourced to RR...

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HarperCollins to publish Lawrence Hill’s new novel, The Illegal

HarperCollins has announced it is publishing Lawrence Hill’s new novel, The Illegal. The book is slated for publication in Canada on Sept. 1. The Illegal, Hill’s tenth publication, follows a young...

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HarperCollins reaches deal with Amazon, staves off “doomsday scenario”

Amazon, the world’s largest online book retailer, and HarperCollins, the second-largest of the so-called “big five” publishers in the U.S., have entered into a multiyear contract, avoiding a protracted...

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UTP Distribution’s free-freight program promises relief to booksellers

Arsenal Pulp Press publisher Brian Lam was aware that shipping costs were an issue for West Coast retailers, but it wasn’t until he met with a group of Vancouver Island booksellers that he realized the...

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Anansi’s Sarah MacLachlan among publishers chosen for inaugural Scottish...

Sarah MacLachlan, president and publisher of House of Anansi Press, has been chosen to participate in a new international publishing fellowship program initiated by Publishing Scotland and Creative...

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Booksellers ordering from HarperCollins expecting a less-green Christmas

The Book Keeper in Sarnia, Ontario Canadian independent booksellers are rebuking the distribution services provided by R.R. Donnelley leading up to a busy holiday shopping season. The Indiana-based...

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HarperCollins provides space for feminist conversation with Women’s Voices...

HarperCollins is launching a campaign to showcase titles authored by “badass women” taking on feminist issues. Women’s Voices aims to invigorate the discourse around gender politics and draw attention...

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BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction

Lawrence Hill takes three spots on this week’s list for Canadian fiction. For the two weeks ending July 8, 2012:… Read More »

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Fall preview 2012: Canadian non-fiction, part II

The season of high-profile literary awards and author festivals is on its way, and there’s no shortage of new releases… Read More »

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Michael Ondaatje shortlisted for Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Michael Ondaatje has been named a fiction finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his novel The Cat’s Table.… Read More »

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Harry Karlinsky’s Darwin novel longlisted for Wellcome Trust Book Prize

Vancouver psychiatrist Harry Karlinsky’s debut novel, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects, has been nominated for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize… Read More »

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BookNet bestsellers: cookbooks

Chef Michael Smith, who has this week’s best-selling cookbook, is a relative newcomer compared to Jean Paré, whose classic Company’s… Read More »

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

Are the big six publishers about to become the giant five? According to the Financial Times, Bertelsmann and Pearson are… Read More »

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Are HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster next to merge?

Although speculation over the name isn’t as entertaining as the Penguin Random House merger, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster are… Read More »

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Liquor, Lust and the Law: The Story of Vancouver’s Penthouse Nightclub

George Fetherling

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Simon & Schuster to begin library lending in New York

Simon & Schuster, the last of the Big Six multinational publishers to venture into ebook library distribution, will make its entire… Read More »

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HarperCollins celebrates its 200th anniversary around the world

HarperCollins Publishers started as a small family-run print shop run by brothers James and John Harper in New York City 200 years ago.

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Remembering Margaret Paull, HarperCollins’s influential art director

In 1944, Margaret V. Paull completed her course work at the Ontario College of Art, before embarking on a long and influential career in Canadian publishing.

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Craig Swinwood named CEO of HarperCollins Canada amid international executive...

HarperCollins has announced a number of executive personnel changes in line with a new international strategy that includes "ambitious foreign language growth plans."

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HarperCollins to bring Wattpad stories to book form

HarperCollins and Wattpad have teamed up to release stories from the online publishing platform as print YA books.

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Q&A: Twitter comedian Jonny Sun on the voice of jomny, aliens, anxiety, and...

Since joining Twitter in 2009, Jonny Sun has been penning the shortest of short-form jokes under the guise of an adorably innocent alien “confuesed abot humamn lamgauge.”

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Tragically Hip bio and Candy Palmater memoir are in the works

ECW has acquired a new title on Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip, while HarperCollins has announced the debut book by TV and radio personality Candy Palmater.

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