Getting ‘aesthetically pleasing and accessible content’ out of what the judges gave her as a mashup of sci-fi and Lewis Carroll, Katy Mastrocola beats the competition.
Star-Studded ‘Canada Reads’: Five Books, Three Publishers, Big Sales
The CBC Books production ‘Canada Reads’ 2018 airs next week, hosted by Ali Hassan. Available on radio, the Internet, and television, the program could be a model for many world markets looking to reach readers through media channels.
Five Highlights From BookNet Canada’s 2017 Market Report
BookNet Canada’s 2017 report on the country’s English-language market shows fiction unit sales dipping by 8 percent—and Rupi Kaur’s work powering a 79-percent increase in poetry sales.
Notes: Future!Publish Program at Leipzig; Canada’s Greystone Sends 15 to London
As the spring trade-show season heats up, Leipzig announces a second year of the Future! Publish Young Talent Days and a Vancouver-based independent publisher is sending a big contingent to London Book Fair in April.
Canadian Honeybee Campaign Will Distribute 100,000 Free Copies of Kids Can Press Book
Kids Can Press author Paulette Bourgeois and illustrator Josée Bisaillon have created a book for General Mills Canada’s third annual educational campaign for ecological support. And bees may be among the beneficiaries.
Canadian Publishers Blast School Boards’ Lawsuit of Access Copyright
‘We have no choice but to interpret this suit as the intimidating action that it is,’ says the leadership of the Association of Canadian Publishers in a statement on the lawsuit by almost 100 school boards and education ministries.
94 Canadian School Boards and Ministries Sue Access Copyright: Writers Call It ‘an Outrageous Attack’
With five years of copyright revenue reportedly compromised under Canada’s Copyright Modernization Act, the country’s education sector now is suing Access Copyright for money from three prior years. The Writers Union denounces it as ‘a cynical tactic.’
From Canada, Wattpad Studios Aims at Hollywood With ‘Cupid’s Match’
‘You’ve been matched with a very reckless god. It’s Cupid, himself. And he’s coming for you.’ Wattpad releases its first screen project of 2018.
An Annual Title Fight: Canadian Celebrities Square Off for ‘Canada Reads’
By the end of the annual ‘Canada Reads’ TV show on March 29, only one of the competition’s titles and its celebrity advocate will still be standing.
Viewpoints From the Children’s Books Salon: Trends, Concerns, and Publishing Pride
The observations made by these diverse publishers during at the first Children’s Books Salon in New York speak to their common faith in the social power of books.