Coles Notes
Coles Notes are student guides to literature, published in Canada. The Coles bookstore first published Coles Notes in 1948. The first title published was on the French novella Colomba by Prosper Mérimée.[1][2]
In 1958,
Cliff Hillegass who then published the books under CliffsNotes
.
By 1960, Coles notes sales had peaked. They had published over 120 titles, mostly on English novels; however, they also covered other subjects including maths, science, and foreign languages. Coles Notes is currently owned by Indigo Books in Canada.
See also
- BookRags
- CliffsNotes
- Shmoop
- SparkNotes
- York Notes
Notes
- ProQuest 384640622.
Sam Darichuk and Marion Stephenson split a $5,000 prize for producing the 1948 Coles Notes translation of Prosper Mérimée's Colomba, a long-forgotten 1904 adventure story set in Corsica.
- ProQuest 242894947.
Chapters bookstore will pay $5,000 for an intact copy of the first Coles Notes ever published. Chapters, which owns the rights to Coles Notes, wants to find the first edition of the notes -- a study guide for Columba, a translated French novel by Prosper Merimee, which was on Ontario's Grade 13 curriculum in 1948.
References
- I know that name!: the people behind Canada's best-known brand names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller, Mark Kearney and Randy Ray. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2002. p. 64 (Googlebooks)
- Partial history of Coles Notes at the archived version of the Cliffs Notes website
- The Great Canadian Trivia Book 2, Mark Kearney and Randy Ray. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1998. p. 214 (Googlebooks)
External links
Look up coles notes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.