Chapters Campus Bookstores is operating two fewer stores than it hoped for when it acquired a 51% interest in the Canadian division of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores last spring.Chapters Campus added a new store ... Read More »

So you’ve just read Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and you want more information about Grace Marks, the real-life 19th-century murderess who stars in the novel. You might start with Early Canadiana Online, a Web archive ... Read More »

What do you do when your customer base shrinks, and the only thing that’s growing is the size of your debt? If you’re Biff Savoie, you hire new staff, expand your selection of merchandise, and ... Read More »

Early this year, the future of Chapters Campus Bookstores (CCB) looked rocky. Chapters, the parent company, was in the midst of a takeover battle, and supply problems at the McGill University Bookstore were causing campus ... Read More »

When funding cuts left the Royal British Columbia Museum unable to publish the third and final volume of The Birds of British Columbia, the University of British Columbia Press stepped in to save the project. ... Read More »

When Janet Lunn decided she wanted a web site four years ago, it was a big deal. The Ottawa author had ditched her steadfast typewriter for a computer only a few months earlier. But because ... Read More »

Murray Lamb, vice-president of the school division for McGraw-Hill Ryerson, did a double-take when he first saw the glossy two-page ad for Riso Canada, Inc. promoting its cutting-edge colour copier. Clearly aimed at educators and ... Read More »

While the honeymoon rages on between Canadian adult-fiction J publishers and their overseas counterparts - particularly German - children's book publishers are, by comparison, still wistful debutantes. "I'm hoping for a trickle-down effect," says Kids ... Read More »