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Penguin Random House Canada, the country’s largest book publisher, aims to nourish a universal passion for reading by connecting authors and their writing with readers everywhere. Our celebrated and widely known imprints include Allen Lane, Anchor Canada, Appetite by Random House, Bond Street Books, Doubleday Canada, Hamish Hamilton Canada, Knopf Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Canada, Penguin Teen, Puffin Canada, Random House Canada, Signal, Strange Light, Tundra Books, Viking Canada, and Vintage Canada; we also produce the award-winning magazine Hazlitt. We are the Canadian arm of Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, whose publishing lists include more than 60 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors and who employs more than 10,000 people worldwide. Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013 by Bertelsmann and Pearson, who own 75 per cent and 25 per cent respectively. As part of the global merger, Penguin Random House Canada was formed through the merger of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada, who had operated in Canada for 39 and 69 years respectively. We publish over 500 new original titles per year in the North American market and distribute another 10,000 titles in Canada on behalf of Penguin Random House publishers in the U.S. and the U.K. and many clients. We also run our own Toronto-based audiobook program and in-house recording studio, employing Canadian artists, authors, and directors. With a rich history dating back to the early 1900s, our expansive publishing portfolio contains books for readers of all ages at every stage of life. From politics to poetry, board books to biography, award-winning fiction to non-fiction classics, the country’s cultural conversation begins at Penguin Random House Canada.

Publishers Weekly recognized ECW Press as one of the most diversified independent publishers in North America. ECW Press has published close to 1,000 books that are distributed throughout the English-speaking world and translated into dozens of languages. In the next year, we’ll release 50+ new titles and will continue to support and promote a vibrant backlist that includes poetry and fiction, pop-culture and political analysis, sports books, biography, and travel guides. Books by writers whose names you know and love — and by those who we’re very pleased to introduce for the first time. Who are we? After three decades, we still get asked about our name, those three little letters: ECW. At first the acronym was self-descriptive: Essays on Canadian Writing (the name of the journal of literary criticism we started in 1974). But as the company grew and changed, our name, in our minds, also changed. We’ve heard the company called Essential Canadian Writing, Excellent Contemporary Writing, or, more recently, Extreme Cutting-Edge Writing. And these names have been, and still are, appropriate. But now we realize that each of those letters represents a particular strain of ECW Press’s diverse passions — Entertainment, Culture, Writing. No matter how our name has been interpreted, however, there has always been one constant: our pursuit of excellent writing. We recognize that it’s our authors who make us what we are, who establish our reputation. And because of this we’re committed to bringing you the best writers and the best writing we know — in every genre. In the next decade, ECW will continue to grow and change. Today, we’re publishing a heady mix of commercial and literary works that strive for a uniform standard of excellence: the best writing; the most exciting, controversial, and insightful takes on the hottest subject matter; ground-breaking design; and high production values.

Founded in 1984, Orca Book Publishers is an independently owned Canadian children’s book publisher of award-winning, bestselling books in a number of genres. With over 1,000 titles in print and more than 80 new titles a year, Orca prides itself on publishing Canadian authors and illustrators and bringing them to a wider market.