Canongate.TV

Canongate.TV is a website that’s all about channelling great content for you to watch, listen to and read. We want to bring together all the videos, interviews, reviews, audio, games and anything else about a book or author. But we also want look beyond Canongate, and create a space for other innovative and intelligent projects and ideas that we see going on in the whole creative industry – anything we think our readers might like. Over the next weeks and months we will be making this area of Canongate.TV grow and grow, so keep coming back for more inspiration. In addition, we want to sell books in a different way from other online retailers, offering limited editions and one-off products that you can't find elsewhere, and that will appeal to real fans. And we want to get to know you better, so register today and tell us what you are interested in at Canongate. We’ll let you know the minute that a limited promotion goes on sale, and when film and news items come our way that might interest you.

History

Canongate was founded in 1973. The company nearly went under in 1994, but became independent again following a management buyout by current Publisher and Managing Director, Jamie Byng. It has since emerged as one of the most dynamic publishing houses in Britain. With a distinctly international outlook, Canongate Books continues to nurture and publish new talent from around the world, whilst retaining the essence of the Scottish Canon. We have no specific agenda other than to promote and publish challenging, quality work from as broad a perspective as we are able. We are one of the founding members of the Independent Alliance, a global alliance of ten UK publishers and their international partners who share a common vision of editorial excellence, original, diverse publishing, innovation in marketing and commercial success. Canongate Books has offices in Edinburgh and London, with partners in New York and Melbourne.

Submissions Policy

If you have a work of fiction or non-fiction that you strongly believe would suit our list, please post a synopsis, 3 sample chapters, some information about yourself and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Submissions, Canongate Books, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE. We regret that we cannot accept International Reply Coupons.

We do not publish children's books and we do not currently accept submissions of poetry or drama. Please note that it may take up to three months for us to get back to you. We do not accept unsolicited submissions via email.

Permissions

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Anthology and Quotation Extract Permissions: Please note that at the moment our turnaround time is 3–4 weeks on average, but can be longer in cases where approval must be sought from authors or estates. We cannot grant blanket permissions covering multiple uses or formats on the basis of possible future uses for the material. In most cases there will be a fee due, though all applications are considered on their merits and fair consideration is always given to arguments in favour of a reduction. Our minimum fee for use of a limited amount of material is £50 excluding VAT. We draft our own letters formally granting permissions and issue our own invoices. We are not able to issue double taxation relief forms in cases of payment from foreign bank accounts—the tax must be accounted for on the seeker’s side and the payment made in full. We follow the ‘fair dealing’ guidelines set out by The Society of Authors (cases where formal permissions need not be sought): ‘The Society usually considers as “fair dealing” the use of a single extract of up to 400 words or a series of extracts (of which none exceeds 300 words) to a total of 800 words from a prose work, or of extracts to a total of 40 lines from a poem provided that this does not exceed a quarter of the poem. The words must be quoted in the context of ‘criticism or review’ of the work quoted or of another work. No permission need be sought for such usages provided that the title and the author of the work quoted are credited either in the text itself or in an acknowledgements page.’ www.societyofauthors.org

Our Distributors:

Penguin Canada (Canada) Jashanmal (Dubai) JU Books (Germany) Libri (Germany) Petersen Buchimport (Germany) Eleftheroudakis (Greece) Westland Limited (India) Steimatzsky (Israel) Tzoment Sfarim (Israel) Penguin Italia (Italy) Miyoshi (Japan) The Text Book Centre (Kenya) Nijgh & Van Ditmar (The Netherlands) Nilsson & Lamm (The Netherlands) Schibsted (Norway) Liberty Books (Pakistan) Pansing (Singapore) Penguin Books SA (South Africa) Penguin Spain (Spain) OLF (Switzerland and France) Trafalgar Square Publishing (United States).