Independent Booksellers in southern Ontario are choosing not to be overly alarmed by the opening of Canada’s first chain superstore in November, despite reports from the U.S. that show independent market share shrinking – and ... Read More »

Nine sold-out events and a record number of festival goers had the Vancouver International Writers (& Readers) Festival organizers practically reaching for the bubbly before the eighth annual five-day event on Granville Island was even ... Read More »

If 80% of all Canadians expressed a serious interest in snowflakes – to pick a subject at random – you can bet your bottom dollar that our bookstores and magazine racks would soon be flooded ... Read More »

Traditionally, Aboriginal cultural knowledge has been transmitted and documented primarily through the oral tradition; but also through dramatic productions, dance performances, petroglyphs, and artifacts such as birch bark scrolls, totem poles, wampum belts, and masks. ... Read More »

For the second time in four years, Fitzhenry & Whiteside has been hit by the loss of a major portion of its distribution business. In October, Little, Brown & Co. (Canada) announced plans to shift ... Read More »

If any Canadian publishers were expecting the Frankfurt Book Fair to offer a respite from the bottom-line-rattling changes that have shaken their own industry – the growing impact of multimedia products, particularly in reference and ... Read More »

On January 1, Addison-Wesley will take over distribution of all trade and educational titles previously handled by Copp Clark. The two companies, both subsidiaries of Pearson PLC in the U.K. (which also owns Penguin), decided ... Read More »

Richard Nelson Bolle’s career parable - taken as a quirky chapter in North American worklore - could aptly be described as, well, inspirational. The setting was California in the late 1960s. Bolles had left the ... Read More »

Children don't care about this." Eleanor LeFave runs her left hand lightly over the coarsened edges of a bookshelf in the recently-opened second Mabel's Fables.Throughout the west-Toronto store, the rough-hewn shelves are designed specifically to ... Read More »

As the spring season draws to a close, Canadian publishers are reeling from the impact of a downturn that cut a swath through the entire book industry. A potpourri of dire economic factors the recession, ... Read More »