DVDs have bonus features. Cereal boxes have prizes stashed inside. Why shouldn’t novels come with special tricks and treats? That’s what 49-year-old Steve Zio thought when he sat down to write Hot Springs, one of ... Read More »

Of all the entertainment businesses, the publishing industry has always seemed the most impervious to technological change. The music biz has moved from vinyl to cassettes to CDs to MP3s and the home video industry ... Read More »

When Indigo CEO Heather Reisman announced a plan to reduce the chain’s book inventory two years ago, there was a hue and cry from many in the Canadian publishing industry about the horrible impact this ... Read More »

A central question at the sixth International Symposium on Copyright, held in Montreal in late April, was posed by the man on the hot seat, Google’s chief product counsel, Alexander Macgillivray. What harm is there ... Read More »

A little more than a year after CanWest Books released its first title, things have settled down a bit there. In its earliest days, though, when the sum total of staff at the imprint equalled ... Read More »

Earlier this month, Trevor Cole, whose second novel The Fearsome Particles is out this fall, debuted a new website, AuthorsAloud.com that features audio recordings of Canadian fiction and poetry writers reading from their work.Cole had ... Read More »

Many Canadian publishers have made strides toward environment-friendly practices in recent years, but the not-for-profit group Zerofootprint is offering to help them go one step further. Successful programs such as "Ancient Forest Friendly," created by ... Read More »

A report from the trustee overseeing the Hushion House bankruptcy indicates a disagreement with Indigo over money owed to the defunct distributor.A July 10 report prepared by Grant Thornton, the firm acting as trustee, lists ... Read More »