Comments on: So Long, Raincoast Books http://matthewgruman.com/so-long-raincoast-books/ Matthew Gruman's Personal Site Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Grace http://matthewgruman.com/so-long-raincoast-books/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Grace Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:26:39 +0000 http://matthewgruman.com/?p=278#comment-121 This is such a bummer. I still don't understand how the money from the most success book ever published wasn't able to pull them from the red though - and didn't they receive a fairly healthy grant as well? I know funding is pretty slim these days, but it's sad to see them fold like this, especially since they were the major force on the west coast, and most of the other big houses are in Toronto. It was nice to have some diversity (not to downplay Quebec, east coast, or prairie publishers, or other west coast publishers). Still a bit of a strange situation though. This is such a bummer. I still don’t understand how the money from the most success book ever published wasn’t able to pull them from the red though – and didn’t they receive a fairly healthy grant as well? I know funding is pretty slim these days, but it’s sad to see them fold like this, especially since they were the major force on the west coast, and most of the other big houses are in Toronto. It was nice to have some diversity (not to downplay Quebec, east coast, or prairie publishers, or other west coast publishers).

Still a bit of a strange situation though.

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