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....
View ArticleHarperCollins 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...
View ArticleBitLit 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...
View ArticleHarperCollins 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...
View ArticleHarperCollins 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...
View ArticleHarperCollins 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...
View ArticleUTP 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...
View ArticleAnansi’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...
View ArticleBooksellers 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...
View ArticleHarperCollins 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...
View ArticleBookNet 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 »
View ArticleFall 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 »
View ArticleMichael 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 »
View ArticleHarry 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 »
View ArticleBookNet 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 »
View ArticleIs 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 »
View ArticleAre 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 »
View ArticleSimon & 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 »
View ArticleHarperCollins 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.
View ArticleRemembering 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.
View ArticleCraig 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."
View ArticleHarperCollins 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.
View ArticleQ&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.”
View ArticleTragically 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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