Archive for February, 2009

Douglas Gibson Books

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Douglas Gibson Books was the very first editorial imprint in Canada when it was established in March 1986. Legend has it that Jack McClelland, having just sold his company to Avie Bennett, advised him to lure Doug Gibson away from Macmillan of Canada, where he had been Editorial Director since 1974 and Publisher since [...]

D&M Publishers

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

D&M Publishers is one of the largest independent publishing houses in Canada with full offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Gabriola Island. D&M publishes Canadian fiction and non-fiction which is internationally recognized for the best quality editorial content, design and production. Our driving passion is to create the best Canadian books for readers worldwide and to [...]

Cormorant Books

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Cormorant Books is committed to publishing the best new work in the area of literary fiction and creative non-fiction for the adult market.
Twenty years ago, Jan and Gary Geddes started Cormorant Books on their farm outside of Dunvegan in Eastern Ontario. Each of them had a reason for naming the company for this particular [...]

Commodore Books

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Commodore Books is the first and only black literary press in western Canada. We are affiliated with the non-profit West Coast Review Publishing Society. Explore the site, order some books, and support independent African Canadian literature.
Commodore Books is an imprint of LINEbooks, and operates under the umbrella of the West Coast Review Publishing Society, a [...]

Coach House Books

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Tucked away on Toronto’s historic bpNichol Lane, Coach House Books has been publishing and printing high-quality innovative fiction and poetry since 1965. Coach House is Canada’s most venerable literary press and has, during the past forty years, published books by Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, bpNichol, Nicole Brossard, Christian Bök, Guy Maddin, Steve McCaffery, Gail Scott, [...]

CCH Incorporated

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

In the nineteen thirties, the Kingsland Company, which was responsible for numerous insurance and legal publications, became the exclusive distributor in Canada for Commerce Clearing House (CCH) Inc.’s loose leaf publication Canadian Tax Reports. Those were initially published at the request of CCH’s U.S. customers who conducted business in Canada and required Canadian tax law [...]

Between the lines

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Between the lines books are written by some of Canada’s leading political and cultural thinkers. In every case their work has been meticulously researched, edited with great care, and written in a style accessible to a broad range of readers. Our authors want to be read. Read by college and university students and by the [...]

Ash-Tree Press

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Since 1994, Ash-Tree Press has published a wide range of quality supernatural fiction in hardcover limited editions, generally of 5–600 copies. All of our hardcovers are bound in a luxury cloth, smyth sewn, and printed on ph neutral paper, all of which means that they are designed to last, and to remain a pleasure to [...]

Arbeiter Ring Publishing

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Arbeiter Ring Publishing (”Worker’s Circle”) borrows its name from the radical Jewish fraternal organization. A century ago, socialist and anarchist locals of the Arbeiter Ring were active on the political and [...]