All the Ontario publishers facing termination of provincial loan guarantees during the first few months of this year are well on their way to securing alternative sources of credit, countering earlier industry warnings that the ... Read More »

A group of 31 retailers in the Ottawa area are hoping to go national with a campaign they launched in 1995 to give Chapters a run for its money by promoting independent bookstores. The independents took ... Read More »

Three weeks after the tabling of a federal budget that had little to offer publishers, Heritage Minister Sheila Copps injected an extra $2.3-million into the federal government’s granting program for the book industry. In a ... Read More »

Librarians at Toronto’s York University walked off the job in March as a result of a labour dispute between the university and its 1,050-member faculty association. The two sides had been in negotiations for about ... Read More »

Harlequin Enterprises has added several new lines of supplementary teacher-resource materials to its growing children’s educational division. The new lines – purchased from Simon & Schuster – include Judy/Instructo, American Teaching Aids, Good Apple, and ... Read More »

The Bravo! network plans to launch a new show about the world of publishing – provided it receives enough financial support from the industry. Producer Shannon Wray pitched the show in late March to a group ... Read More »

Following months of rumours, officials with Ingram – the Tennessee-based wholesale giant – have confirmed they’re exploring a joint venture with a yet-unnamed Canadian partner. According to an industry source, company officials have visited Canada ... Read More »

The Canadian Booksellers Association expected to name a new executive director by early May, following the abrupt departure of former director John Finlay. CBA president Jane Cooney said in April that the board had narrowed its ... Read More »

There’s no denying the power of Oscar to sell books. Customers have been snapping up copies of The English Patient since the film treatment of Michael Ondaatje’s novel was released last November, but sales have ... Read More »