Raincoast Books

Raincoast Books
Limited
Industry Book Distribution
Founded 1979
Founder Allan MacDougall, Mark Stanton
Headquarters Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Key people
John Sawyer, CEO
Allan MacDougall, Chairman of the Board
Paddy Laidley, Executive VP Sales and Marketing
Graham Fidler, Executive VP Publishers Group Canada
Products Books
Number of employees
90
Website raincoast.com

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

Divisions

Raincoast Distribution

Raincoast Distribution provides Canadian representation to general trade and gift publishers from the United States and Canada. Companies distributed by Raincoast include Chronicle Books, Drawn & Quarterly, Hay House, Lonely Planet, Moleskine, and New Harbinger. Raincoast was awarded Book Distributor of the Year by the Canada Booksellers Association in 2004, 2005, and 2006.

Publishers Represented by Raincoast Distribution

AMACOM
Beginning Press
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bilingual Books, Inc.
Blue Apple Books
Chronicle Books
Drawn & Quarterly
Gibbs Smith
Hay House
Laurence King
Lonely Planet
Magnetic Poetry
Moleskine
The Mountaineers Books
New Harbinger Publications
Owlkids Books
Parenting Press
Pop Sandbox
Portable Press
Princeton Architectural Press
Quirk Books
Raincoast Books
Silver Dolphin
Thunder Bay Press

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 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, H.B. Fenn, Andrews McMeel, Scholastic Canada, Diamond Book Distribution and Firefly.

Raincoast Publishing

Between 1995 and 2008, Raincoast Books was also a Canadian 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, Alison Pick, 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. On January 7, 2008, Raincoast announced that it would cease to publish new books due to the rise in the Canadian dollar.[1][2] Raincoast also ceased to be the Canadian publisher of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books in 2010.[3]

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