E-books are less popular online contraband than music, movies, and software, but a new study commissioned by the Canadian Publishers’ Council suggests that online book piracy is growing – and textbook publishers should beware.The study, ... Read More »

Until recently, students had no choice but to be part of the twice- or thrice-yearly bookstore crush. Wending their way through a maze of titles, ticking their way down a reading list, students traditionally loaded ... Read More »

Publishing scholarly titles is an expensive, inefficient, and rarely profitable business. Press runs are low, typically 1,000 copies or less, and books can sit in a publisher’s warehouse for years before they are sold – ... Read More »

When Chapters announced last March that it had taken over the management of the McGill University bookstore, both publishers and booksellers expressed concern over what this would mean for university bookstores across the country. To ... Read More »

In the Canadian publishing universe, few companies have found themselves more imperiled by prevailing economic conditions than the country’s scholarly presses. Most were founded in a very different era – the late ’60s and early ... Read More »

Scholarly publishing in Canada would be far more difficult without the federally funded Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme. Since 1941, the ASPP – initially funded by the Rockefeller Foundation until the creation of the Canada ... Read More »

Academic presses bridge the gap between the academic and commercial worlds, and that gap can be vast. Peter Milroy of University of British Columbia Press tells of the academic who admitted he wrote a manuscript ... Read More »