ECW Press

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Canadian book publisher

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imageECW Press.jpg
image_size200px
founded1974
founderJack David and Robert Lecker
countryCanada
headquartersToronto
distributionJaguar Book Group (Canada)
Baker and Taylor Publisher Services (USA)
Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd.(UK & Europe)
New South Books (Australia & New Zealand)
publicationsBooks
imprintsBespeak Audio
numemployees11–50
url
ownerJack David and David Caron
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ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canadian literary magazine named Essays on Canadian Writing. They started publishing trade and scholarly books in 1979.

ECW Press publishes a range of books in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, sport, and pop culture. In 2015, Publishers Weekly listed ECW Press as one of the fastest-growing independent publishers in North America.

History

The company was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canadian literary magazine named Essays on Canadian Writing. Five years later, ECW published its first books—trade and scholarly titles. It started with two principal series: the Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors (ABCMA) and Canadian Writers and Their Works (CWTW). Through the 1980s, ECW upgraded its typesetting facilities, published reference titles and began to service third-party clients, creating books for corporations to use for promotional purposes and events such as anniversaries.

In the 1990s, ECW re-commenced trade publishing and expanded its scholarly and reference lines for high school and public libraries. They started publishing a mix of commercial books alongside their literary books, such as pop culture books (the first being The Duchovny Files: The Truth Is in Here by Paul Mitchell, published in 1995, a biographical dossier on actor David Duchovny that includes episode guides of The X-Files), sports books, and genre fiction.

Robert Lecker left the company in 2003.

ECW produced its first audiobook in 2009 and expanded its operations in 2015. ECW launched the audiobook imprint Bespeak Audio, focusing on Canadian production of Canadian books, in 2017.

Titles

Fiction

Non-fiction

Poetry

Sports

Pop Culture

Sports: Total MMA: Inside Ultimate Fighting, by Jonathan Snowden; A Killing Art: The Untold History of Tae Kwon Do, by Alex Gillis; To Dakar and Back: 21 Days Across North Africa on a Motorcycle, by Lawrence Hacking and Wil De Clercq; The Agassi Story, by Dominic Cobello, Mike Agassi, and Kate Shoup Walsh; Double Blue: An Illustrated History of the Toronto Argonauts, eds. Wayne Parrish and Jim O’Leary

Wrestling: Wrestling's Greatest Moments, by Mike Rickard; World Wrestling Insanity Presents: Shoot First…Ask Questions Later, by James Guttman; WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Professional Wrestling, by Randy Baer and RD Reynolds; Beer, Blood & Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling, by Bob Calhoun; Drawing Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works, by Larry Matysik Benoit: Wrestling with the Horror that Destroyed a Family and Crippled a Sport, by Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irvin Muchnick, and Greg Oliver; National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Pro Wrestling, by Tim Hornbaker

Film and Television: Finding Lost, by Nikki Stafford; House That Hugh Laurie Built*, by Paul Challen; All In This Together: The Unofficial Story of High School Musical; Bite Me! The Unofficial Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, by Nikki Stafford; The 100 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, by Richard Crouse; Frak You!: The Ultimate Unauthorized Guide to Battlestar Galactica, by Jo Storm

Biography/Memoir: Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, by Neil Peart; An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama, by David Olive; Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner; The Molly Fire, by Michael Mitchell; Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times, by Neil Peart; Rifke, by Rosalie Wise Sharp; The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa, by Neil Peart

Games: Practical Poker Math: Basic Odds and Probabilities for Hold’em Poker and Omaha, by Pat Dittmar; Letterati: An Unauthorized Look at Scrabble and People Who Play it, by Paul McCarthy; No Limit Texas Hold’Em, by Angel Largay;

Humour: Herman Classics, by Jim Unger; Pithy Seedy Pulpy Juicy: Eleven Rhymes with Orange Books in One, by Hilary B. Price; Speed Bump, by Dave Coverly, Hi & Lois: Sunday Best, by Brian Walker, Greg Walker, and Chance Browne

Science: Let Them Eat Flax!, by Dr. Joe Schwarcz; What Does the Moon Smell Like?, by Eva Everything; The End of the River: Dams, Drought, and Déjà Vu on the Rio São Francisco, by Brian Harvey

True Crime: The Assimilation: Rock Machines Become Bandidos – Bikers United Against the Hells Angels, by Edward Winterhalder and Wil de Clercq; A Priest in Hell, by Randall Radic; Robber Baron: Lord Black of Crossharbour, by George Tombs; The Biker Trials: Bringing Down the Hells Angels, by Paul Cherry; Smuggler's Blues: The Saga of a Marijuana Importer, by Jay Carter Brown; Framed: Hollywood's Dealer to the Stars Tells All, by Tod Volpe

Business/Personal Finance: The Canadian Snowbird in America: Professional Tax and Financial Insights Into Temporary Lifestyles in the U.S., by Terry F. Ritchie with Brian D. Wruk; The American in Canada: Real-Life Tax and Financial Insights Into Moving and Living in Canada, by Brian D. Wruk with Terry F. Ritchie; Take Your Money and Run, by Alex Doulis; The Cottage, the Spider Brooch, and the Second Wife: How to Overcome the Challenges of Estate Planning, by Sandy Cardy with Michael Fitzgerald; Steps to Business Success: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Manageable Bites*, by Peter M. Cleveland

Travel: NOW Toronto; and the Secret Travel Series including: Secret Montreal; Secret Vancouver; Secret New York; Secret Boston; Secret San Francisco --

References

References

  1. "Books".
  2. "Fast-Growing Independent Publishers, 2015".
  3. "In House: ECW Press {{!}} LPG Members Site".
  4. Andrew Hudson. (2014-11-05). "ECW Press bucking the trends in publishing industry".
  5. "In House: ECW's Bespeak Audio imprint".
  6. McNamara, Andy. (November 9, 2007). "Stampede book gets back in the saddle: Revised and expanded edition of Pain and Passion hits even more shelves". [[Canoe.ca]].
  7. "Stu Hart: Lord of the Ring". Online World Of Wrestling.

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