With the perennial culture-business dichotomy loitering in the wings, publishing industry representatives and Department of Communications mandarins have gathered this fall to re-choreograph federal publishing policy.They are setting the terms for the $25-million per year ... Read More »

"Terminated" after 18 years in 1990, former Grolier vice-president Ken Pearson has rebounded by founding Umbrella Press.Umbrella has two specialities: resources for elementary and high-school social sciences (especially grades 7-10) and parenting books for professionals ... Read More »

The drawn-out demise of Grolier Ltd. in Canada all but concluded with the announcement on September 21 that Nelson Canada would take over most of the firm's remaining Canadian operations. Under the agreement between Nelson ... Read More »

The fate of Canada's number-two book retailer, the 220-outlet Smith-Books chain, was the subject of intense speculation in early October- although the parties involved publicly denied that a sale was being negotiated. "I was not ... Read More »

The University of Toronto Press resided for years in the very lap of academe: its pied a terrez squat, stone building in the centre of U of T's St. George campus. Not surprisingly, the Press's ... Read More »

On a recent flight, Katheleen Bain did an experiment to assess the popularity of the mass-market paperback. Bain, vice-president of sales and marketing for Random House, walked up and down the aisles of the plane ... Read More »

Jennifer Smith’s experiment with her tape section was simple, yet the results underscored the need to properly merchandise hard-to-sell products. Last summer, Smith, manager of a branch in Toronto's Lichtman's mini-chain, took a hard look ... Read More »