Newfoundland author Kenneth J. Harvey has established a lobby group that wants booksellers in Canada to be required, by law, to fill at least half their stores with Canadian books.The small, national organization – called ... Read More »

Booksellers have seen the last of the Open Up to Canadian Authors Campaign. Heritage Canada’s Publication Distribution Assistance Program (PDAP), which funded this year’s $300,000 campaign, has said it can no longer finance the promotion, ... Read More »

Electronic publishing rights were at the forefront of discussions at the second annual Canadian Writers’ Summit, held in St. John’s, Newfoundland in April. Participants in the event – which brings together provincial and national English-language ... Read More »

After 13 years of licensing its titles to U.S. publishers, Kids Can Press has launched a publishing program south of the border that will see its titles sold and distributed under its own name.Under the ... Read More »

Chapters has closed its distribution centre in Rexdale, Ontario, where members of the Teamsters union had been on strike for almost two months, eliminating 31 jobs.Members of Local 419 walked off the job on April ... Read More »