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| Industry | Book publishing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Headquarters | Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
Key people | Andrew Wooldridge, publisher Ruth Linka, associate publisher |
| Website | www |
Orca Book Publishers is a Canadian company that produces books for children. [1]
Orca Book Publishers was founded in 1982 [2] and is based in Victoria, British Columbia. [3]
Orca primarily published children's literature, [3] printing usually around 95 publications per annum. [4] Andrew Wooldridge is the company's publisher, [4] Ruth Linka is the associate publisher, [5] Sara Harvey is an editor. [6]
In 2019, Orca introduced a non-fiction line of books branded as Orca Issues. [7] Orca published Eric Walters' pandemic novel Don't Stand So Close To Me in 2020. [8] The book was published within 41 days of Walter's pitching the idea to Orca. [8]
15,000 of the company's books caught fire while on the MV Zim Kingston vessel near Victoria, British Columbia in October 2021. [9] In 2022, the company moved production of its books from China and Korea to Canada. [9]
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