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 . contents 1 divisions 1.1 raincoast distribution 1.1.1 publishers represented by raincoast distribution 1.2 publishers group canada 1.3 bookexpress 2 raincoast publishing 3 notes 4 external links divisions edit raincoast distribution edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 notes edit raincoast blog getting back to basics cbc.ca arts raincoast books to ditch publishing arm pottersource penguin canada contest external links edit raincoast distribution publishers group canada this british columbia related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a canadian corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about a publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title raincoast books & oldid 740887548 categories book publishing companies of canadabritish columbia stubscanadian company stubspublishing company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 september 2016 at 00 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view