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The 2nd edition received great reviews but price slashing by chain bookstores Coles and W.H Smith had serious consequences for Hurtig Publishers.
The Canadian Encyclopedia is published. The sold out sets earn $14 million in revenue.
The bank threatens to call his entire loan of $700,000.
The Alberta government agrees to provide the $4 million needed for research and development as well as $600,000 to underwrite 25,000 copies to be presented to libraries and schools throughout Canada.
The beginnings of the Canadian Encyclopedia at the University of Toronto.
Sales surpassed half a million dollars, making Hurtig Publishers the most substantial mid-size publisher in Canada.
McClelland & Stewart “published
a mammoth unabridged edition in one
volume” of The Canadian Encyclopedia
(Perilous Trade, 314)
Hurtig Publishers becomes an official imprint.
Hurtig attempts
to save the company by cutting
expenses, titles, employees, etc
Two bestselling novels earned Mel Hurtig the Canadian Booksellers Association Publisher Of The Year award.
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To generate capital for his expanding publishing operation, Hurtig sells his bookstores.
Tuttle and Hurtig developed
The Canadian Rockies:
Early Travels and Explorations.
Mel Hurtig buys his first bookstore in Edmonton, Alberta
Liberal government decides to significantly support the book industry due to work of members of the IPA including Hurtig Publishers
Al Purdy’s The New Romans, an anti-American anthology sells 35,000 copies in paperback becoming a number-one bestseller.
Guinness Corp agrees to transfer the rights of the Guinness Book of Records from Burns&MacEachern to Hurtig.
Annual sales go from 1000 to 7500.
Hurtig convinces American publisher Charles Tuttle to give him Canadian agency rights to The Tuttle Publishing list.
Hurtig publishes
The Junior Encyclopedia
of Canada
Hurtig announces the sale of Hurtig Publishers’ backlist to Avie Bennet and McClelland & Stewart