Deal maker Allan MacDougall scored the rights to publish Harry Potter in Canada GlobeArts
Allan McDougall of Raincoast Books shown reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets from the Harry Potter series of books, Feb. 21, 2000.Allan MacDougall was a bootstrap entrepreneur whose life story had a tragic twist. A savvy deal maker who was genuinely curious about the world, he could work a room without a whiff of artifice. He loved reading, storytelling, having fun and most of all his family.
Mr. MacDougall persuaded Ms. Rowling, the world’s first billionaire author to come to Canada to appear at the Toronto International Festival of Authors in October, 2000 at a mass public reading in the SkyDome to promote volume four,. It was hailed as the biggest reading in the history of book publishing, with more than 20,000 fans of all ages turning out to see their favourite author.
Around the time the crucial print run numbers were being calculated, he would drop by Ms. Henry’s office for a chat. She remembered him cautiously inquiring, “So, Lynn, it’s pretty good this time, is it? Maybe even better than the last? Don’t say a word, but, you know, just give me a thumbs up or thumbs down!”He was masking his anxiety with a joke – a typical MacDougall ploy. As he admitted in a candid interview with the Vancouver Sun in 2005, “What’s driven me from Day 1 is fear.
On his own, with very little formal education, Allan MacDougall picked up a job as an accountant’s assistant in a bank. Four years later he went travelling in the Middle East and almost died from typhoid fever. While recovering, he visited his older sister in the U.K, and by chance met a member of the Collins publishing family, who whetted his curiosity about the making and selling of books.Back in Ottawa, Mr.
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