The Net Generation has arrived. These N-Geners are the seven million North American children with home Internet accounts. They are the students at the 43% of schools that are wired for access to digital information ... Read More »

Should kindergarten students use computers in the classroom? Many experts say no – believing that computers interfere with the development of vital social skills that occurs at this age.But a former provincial education administrator says ... Read More »

The departure of General Distribution Services’ two largest Canadian clients this week doesn’t seem to have fazed the company’s foreign publishers, who say they are getting paid and plan to stay with their Canadian distributor ... Read More »

The collapse of the Vancouver feminist house Press Gang Publishers – and the transfer of selected Press Gang titles to Raincoast Books last year – has several authors crying foul over unpaid back royalties. And ... Read More »

Based on my experience on both ends of the writing-editing process, let me tell you what editors want. Editors want writers who understand grammar and syntax, who know how to gather accurate information, who write ... Read More »

Margaret Atwood has donated a letter to Ontario’s Richmond Hill Public Library about the 19th-century murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery, the historical event that she explored in her prize-winning novel Alias Grace. Jane Horrocks, ... Read More »

A random royalty audit conducted recently by The Writers’ Union of Canada revealed a $1,262.56 underpayment to authors Betty Jane Wylie and Lynne MacFarlane. But both the union and the publisher – Key Porter – ... Read More »

Montreal’s literary community mourned the death of one grand old man of poetry this winter – Gaston Miron, an outspoken defender of la langue française – while fêting another: Irving Layton, a self-confessed “demon” who ... Read More »

In a bid to bring its original superstore more directly under head office control, Chapters has replaced three veteran managers at Toronto’s World’s Biggest Bookstore. The changeover took place in mid-February. Gone are merchandise manager ... Read More »