Two French-language publishers who recently began publishing English-language books aimed at the Canadian children’s and school market plan to display their new lines at the CBA show in June. Éditions Heritage will be promoting Dominique ... Read More »

After more than 25 years of steady backlist sales, HarperCollins Canada is reissuing There’s a Seal in My Sleeping Bag in a new trade paperback format. “The back orders were starting to pile up again,” ... Read More »

It’s part of the business: losing authors to rival houses, and sometimes even watching them go on to huge commercial success. What’s a publisher to do? With its new reprint of Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s first book, ... Read More »

Hamilton bookseller Bryan Prince is a purist. Despite heated competition from nearby superstores, Prince doggedly resists what he sees as the competitive gutter: discounting wars. “We’ve taken the high road,” he proudly announces. “We tell ... Read More »

Toronto poet Michael Holmes, who was set to join the ranks of published novelists this month, will wait a little longer for his fiction debut. House of Anansi had planned to publish Holmes’ Watermelon Row ... Read More »

A familiar face from the book review media is releasing a title of his own this season: Alan Twigg, publisher of BC BookWorld, is the author of Cuba: A Concise History for Travellers, scheduled for ... Read More »

Penguin Canada, Kraft Canada, and Chapters are collaborating on a unique campaign to help food banks in Canada while at the same time promoting Pat Capponi’s The War at Home: An Intimate Portrait of Canada’s ... Read More »

Wall calendars, like refrigerator art, make statements about our society's tastes, ambitions, and preoccupations: the pictures - depictions of bucolic scenery, sentimental photos of animals, art that's long beyond controversy, cartoon figures, and portraits of ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart chair Avie Bennett has taken his fight against copyright infringement to the doorstep of several major U.S. wholesalers. On October 20, Bennett sent a letter to Baker & Taylor, Pacific Pipeline, Blackwell ... Read More »

Canadian publishers who made a decision last year to reduce or eliminate the mark-up on their U.S. imports paid for this sales-oriented strategy when the dollar plummeted during the fall. The result, they say, will ... Read More »