Raincoast Books is a Canadian book distribution and wholesale company. Based in

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, British Columbia, Raincoast was founded by Mark Stanton and Allan MacDougall in 1979 as a consignment wholesaler that shared overhead, warehouse space and staff with the pair's sales agency, Stanton & MacDougall. Today, Raincoast has over 90 employees and three divisions: Raincoast Distribution, Publishers Group Canada.

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Raincoast Distribution

Raincoast Distribution is a Canadian company which provides complete sales, marketing and fulfillment services to a wide range of general trade and gift publishers from the United States, Britain and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include

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Publishers represented by Raincoast Distribution

:Alma Books :Beginning Press :Birdhouse Kids Media :BIS Publishers : Bilingual Books, Inc. :Bloomsbury :Celadon Books :

:Creative Company :

:Encantos :Entangled Publishing :Familius :Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) :Figure 1 :Flatiron Books :Galison + Mudpuppy :Game Seven Books :Games Room :

Gibbs Smith Gibbs Smith is an American publisher based in Utah. The publishing house was founded in 1969 by Gibbs M. Smith (1940–2017) and his wife Catherine. Its offerings include children's books, including the BabyLit line, cookbooks, home reference bo ...

:Greywolf Press :Hardie Grant :Harriman House :Henry Holt & Co. :Kingfisher :Laurence King :Levine Querido :

:Macmillan Publishers Group : Magnetic Poetry :Media Lab Books :Minotaur :

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:Neon Squid :

Publications :Osprey :Page Two :Petit Collage :Picador :Pownal Street Press :Priddy Books :Princeton Architectural Press :Prufrock Press :Quadrille :Raincoast Books :Ridley's Games :Sounds True :Sourcebooks :St. Martin's Publishing Group :Tor/Forge :Twirl

Publishers Group Canada

Publishers Group Canada (PGC) was acquired by Raincoast Books in 2000. Based in Toronto, Ontario, PGC distributes independently owned book publishing houses including Grove Atlantic, New World Library and Egmont Publishing, Egmont Books in Canada.

BookExpress

BookExpress is a wholesale division supplying Canadian bookstores and retailers. BookExpress carries bestselling books from publishers including Random House Canada, Penguin Books Canada, HarperCollins Canada, Scholastic Canada, Diamond Comic Distributors, Diamond Book Distribution and Firefly.

Raincoast Publishing

Between 1995 and 2008, Raincoast Books was also a book publisher. The Raincoast publishing program produced a range of fiction and non-fiction titles for both adults and children. Authors who published work with Raincoast included Anne Fleming (writer), Anne Fleming, Alison Pick, Colin McAdam (novelist), Colin McAdam, Nick Bantock, George Bowering, Paul William Roberts, Naim Kattan, Roy Miki, Amanda K. Hale, and Bill Gaston. As a publisher, the company was noted for using large amounts of recycled paper in its books. In January 2008, Raincoast announced that it would cease to publish new books due to the rise in the Canadian dollar. Raincoast also ceased to be the Canadian publisher of J.K. Rowling's ''Harry Potter'' books in 2010.Pottersource – Penguin Canada Contest

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Raincoast Distribution

Publishers Group Canada
{{Authority control Book publishing companies of Canada