Raincoast Books is a Canadian book company based in Vancouver, BC.

We have several distinct but complimentary divisions:

Raincoast Distribution provides full-service Canadian representation to a wide range of publishers from the US, the UK and Canada. We distribute books on a wide range of topics: fiction, current affairs, travel, food and wine, pop culture, children's books, and more. For more details, see our complete list of publishers distributed by Raincoast.

BookExpress is our wholesale division, dedicated to supplying bestselling frontlist and backlist titles to bookstores and retailers across Canada. BookExpress carries over 5,000 titles from over 50 publishers.

Publishers Group Canada, a fully owned subsidiary of Raincoast Books, distributes titles from over 100 independently owned book publishing houses from all over the world. Publishers Group Canada is located in Toronto. For more on Publishers Group Canada, visit www.pgcbooks.ca

Raincoast Books published books under the imprints Raincoast Books, Polestar, Press Gang Publishers and Blue Heron Books. As of January 2008, the publishing program was discontinued. For more information, click here.

Websites managed by Raincoast

Publishers Group Canada: www.pgcbooks.ca
Raincoast Books: www.raincoast.com
Raincoast Blog: blogs.raincoast.com
Business Services (for retailers and other business partners): services.raincoast.com

Our Links section provides a list of publishers distributed by Raincoast Books.