In a move said to be necessary to stabilize Jack Stoddart’s publishing assets, General Publishing announced this evening that 23 employees – more than 10% of the total 219 – have been laid off “throughout ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
Cash-flow problems have forced Montreal-based bookstore Renaud-Bray to shut three stores, prompting Quebec’s book industry to speculate whether the mini-chain’s problems reflect a worrisome long-term softening of the market, or simply the overambitious plans of ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
HOW LONG can the boom last? For the second year in a row, the ; big story in Canadian rights sales at the Frankfurt book fair was the apparently insatiable appetite among German publishers for ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
Chapters’ new campus bookstore division has taken over operations of the McGill University bookstore - the first of what it hopes will be many university and college outlets under its management.The agreement, which took effect ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
Reed Exhibition Companies Canada president John Lewinski says the Canadian Booksellers Association trade show could be relaunched under the BookExpo Canada name next June. But while he says Reed will apply a “new direction and ... Read More »
April 9, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
Determined to avoid the logistical glitches that marred last year’s American Booksellers Association convention, organizers of the 1996 event are promising a new registration system, better transportation, improved food service – and more exhibitors than ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
The Toronto Star has made a $2.5-million donation to the Toronto Public Library (TPL) system, $900,000 of which will be used to significantly expand the cramped 5,000-square-foot newspaper reading room in the basement of thetoronto-star-gives-25-million-to-library/> ... Read More »
April 9, 2004
A Regina lobbying group is planning to appeal the city’s decision to deny a public referendum on a planned contraction of the library system.In a decision released late Monday, city officials rejected the demand for ... Read More »
April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Book news
The Giller Prize has announced an all-writer jury, including one of Canada’s most successful non-fiction authors, for this year’s award.This year’s jury is made up of Charlotte Gray, Alistair MacLeod, and M.G. Vassanji. Gray has ... Read More »
April 8, 2004
After a short stint as Douglas & McIntyre’s marketing director, Jamie Broadhurst is moving to the same position at Raincoast Books.Broadhurst started at D&M in mid-October, but says the combination of Raincoast’s strong domestic program ... Read More »
April 8, 2004
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