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Hurtig Publishers

Bibliography

Lee, Jeff.

"Mel Hurtig blasts Kinder Morgan plan." TheVancouverSun.com. April 19, 2012. May 4, 2012. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Hurtig+blasts+Kinder+Morgan+plan/6483559/story.html

MacSkimming, Roy.

The Perilous Trade: Book Publishing in Canada (1946-2006). 2nd ed. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2007.

McClelland & Stewart Limited.

"Company Profile." McClelland.com. May 4, 2012. http://www.mcclelland.com/about.

Mel Hurtig Today

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Hurtig+blasts+Kinder+Morgan+plan/6483559/story.html

Hurtig's Legacy

As an ardent Canadian nationalist, "Hurtig was convinced that the lack of reference material about Canada was a national disgrace" (Perilous Trade, 236).

McClelland & Stewart’s website states that

the CD-ROM editions of the Canadian Encyclopedia "represent an invaluable treasure chest of Canadian information, bequeathed since 2000 to Historica which continues to update them and make them available electronically to all Canadians” (McClelland&Stewart.com).

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MacSkimming believes that “Bennet had kept faith

with Hurtig’s dream that the encyclopedia must have

an ongoing place in Canadian life” (Perilous Trade, 314).

Hurtig Publisher's Downfall

1. Relying heavily on bank loans and government grants.

2. Price slashing by chain bookstores.

3. Unwilling to compromise nationalism for financial gain. e.g. Refusing to sell to Britannica.

The Hurtig Publishing Identity

- goal: "to make an impact on the entire country" (Canadian nationalism) (Perilous Trade, 229)

- concerned with national politics and Alberta culture

- faith in print advertising

- strong marketing and very selective title choices

- interested in being accessible to a broad readership

1988

1985

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.

1983

The bank threatens to call his entire loan of $700,000.

1978

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.

1967

The beginnings of the Canadian Encyclopedia at the University of Toronto.

1973

2000

1967

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)

1990-1991

Hurtig Publishers becomes an official imprint.

1975

Hurtig attempts

to save the company by cutting

expenses, titles, employees, etc

1972

Two bestselling novels earned Mel Hurtig the Canadian Booksellers Association Publisher Of The Year award.

1956

1964

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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

1966

1974

1968

1962

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.

1990

May 1991

Hurtig publishes

The Junior Encyclopedia

of Canada

Hurtig announces the sale of Hurtig Publishers’ backlist to Avie Bennet and McClelland & Stewart

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