With our sales, marketing and distribution system onside, an exceptional novel will quickly reach the wide audience it deserves.' This includes putting their author first. Douglas & McIntyre was the obvious choice.' Scott McIntyre of Douglas & McIntyre said that he has 'huge respect' for Gaspereau's 'dedication to their craft. It was critical to find a partner who shared our values.

But when Johanna won the prize it was clear that our method of printing and publishing books wouldn't meet the demand. Andrew Steeves, co-owner of Gaspereau Press, said that it is 'important to us that no copy of the book would say Gaspereau Press on the spine unless it came directly from our own hands that's simply the way we work. Douglas & McIntyre is making it available via other e-book sellers, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Sony. The e-book version of The Sentimentalists is already a bestseller on Kobo. Another printing of 20,000 will follow immediately. Douglas & McIntyre plans to ship 30,000 copies of the new edition of the book by this Friday, November 19, from printer Friesens in Manitoba. The Giller Prize, Canada's biggest award for fiction, usually boosts sales of the winner by 75,000 copies. The first printing was 800, which is sold out, and the second printing of 2,300 is spoken for.

Gaspereau Press, the novel's publisher, prints and binds its books in-house, a process that cannot keep up with demand for The Sentimentalists. Douglas & McIntyre is publishing a trade paperback version of Scotia Giller Prize-winner The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud, which has been in short supply since it won the award last Tuesday.

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