Indigo inks clothes cope with Adidas – Winnipeg Free Press

Canadian writers, publishers and e book lovers who’ve been watching nervously because the nation’s largest bookseller has transitioned away from books and in the direction of house decor and way of life equipment obtained extra ominous information this fall when Indigo introduced a cope with Adidas.

Described as step one towards a bigger partnership between the 2 firms, the deal will convey unique Adidas choices to chose Indigo shops in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

It makes Indigo the one third-party retailer in Canada to hold Adidas’ Lego assortment of children’ sportswear and likewise brings a wide range of yoga and lounging clothes gadgets to the shops.

The shift in gross sales focus comes similtaneously Indigo is receiving funds from a federal authorities program to assist Canadian bookstores promote books on-line.

The division of Canadian Heritage final month posted a backgrounder on the primary $12 million allotted by way of a program known as the Canada E book Fund, exhibiting Indigo will obtain $3.5 million for 2022-2024. Two French-language retail chains additionally obtained about $2.5 million in whole. The remainder of the $12 million went to 177 small chains and unbiased shops, with 54 per cent of the full going to firms in Quebec.

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Canadian poet Anne Carson, whose new translation of the Greek tragedy Antigone was produced this fall in Winnipeg by Sick and Twisted Theatre and AA Battery, has been named to the Worldwide Writers program of Britain’s Royal Society of Literature.

Among the many different writers named to this system, which celebrates the facility of literature to interrupt down borders, are American brief fiction author Mary Gaitskill, German kids’s literature writer Cornelia Funke and Tsitsi Dangaremba, a Zimbabwean writer, winner of final 12 months’s PEN Pinter Prize, who has been focused by the nation’s authorities.

That is the second 12 months for the RSL’s worldwide program.

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Venezuelan writer Editorial Dahbar is that this 12 months’s winner of the Worldwide Freedom to Publish/Jeri Laber Award, managed by the Affiliation of American Publishers. The annual award, established in 2002, acknowledges a writer exterior the U.S. who has “demonstrated braveness and fortitude in defending freedom of expression.”

The publishing firm has fought to proceed producing books regardless of Venezuela’s financial collapse, new legal guidelines concentrating on hate speech which might be used towards critics of the federal government, threats from organized crime, harassment of authors and numerous types of governmental stress.

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After a number of years of books on present occasions and up to date historical past, the judges of the Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction have chosen a e book on the outstanding early trendy poet John Donne for this 12 months’s honour.

Tremendous Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (Faber & Faber) by Katherine Rundell examines the main determine among the many “metaphysical poets” of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, most likely finest recognized for No Man Is an Island. “Rundell makes an irresistible case for Donne’s work to be broadly learn 400 years later, for all the electrical pleasure and like it expresses,” the judges write. “And in so doing, she provides us a myriad the reason why poetry — why the humanities — matter.”

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Most up-to-date profitable books have targeted on Twentieth-century subjects, together with the opioid epidemic, the Beatles, Chernobyl and the battle towards AIDS. The final profitable e book to look again farther than the Victorian period was James S. Shapiro’s 1599: A Yr within the Lifetime of William Shakespeare.

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Putting employees on the New York workplaces of HarperCollins have obtained assist from a gaggle of literary brokers who’ve signed a letter promising to not ship new manuscripts to the writer till the strike ends.

“We and our shoppers have benefited vastly from the eagerness and experience of HarperCollins’ employees, and we stand with them of their calls for for a residing wage, a extra equitable and various office, and stronger union protections,” says the letter, signed by almost 200 brokers.

The strike started Nov. 10 and the union, a neighborhood of the United Auto Employees, has been in negotiation with the corporate since final December.

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