Vancouver, a city many in the publishing industry have considered ill-served by the media, has a new medium for book reviews. The Vancouver Sun, one of the city’s two dailies, has added an eight-page pull-out ... Read More »

Government cutbacks to publishers are being blamed in part for a reduction by half in the size of the Canadian collective stand at the Bologna children’s book fair in April. Just 12 publishers have taken ... Read More »

Jack Stoddart, president of Stoddart Publishing and General Distribution Services, has taken a minority position in Key Porter Books, further cementing his new relationship with the company. Key Porter announced earlier this year that, effective ... Read More »

Margaret Laurence’s A Tree for Poverty (ECW Press), English translations of Gabonese song lyrics, and a Canadian Museum of Civilization exhibition catalogue are among the items excerpted by the National Library of Canada for a ... Read More »

The new Libraries Co-operation Act and the Public Libraries Act 1996 – a revision of an old bill – will soon be law in Saskatchewan. Provincial librarian Maureen Woods calls them “the best thing to ... Read More »

McClelland &Stewart is adding to its Canadian roster with the acquisition of Reed Books Canada. In a deal not yet announced at Q&Q’s press time, M&S will take over Reed Canada’s indigenous publishing program and ... Read More »

Spring being award time in the literary world, a number of honours have been announced recently, including the winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award: Keath Fraser, for his novel Popular Anatomy; and ... Read More »

Fundraising continues to top the administrative agenda of Ontario libraries and two of them – the Metro Toronto Reference Library and Kingston Public Library – are trying to preserve service by making unusual appeals for ... Read More »