The media frenzy surrounding Bre-X and its ill-fated involvement in the jungles of Borneo has sparked a flurry of book proposals. Penguin was first past the gate, announcing in March that it had signed Maclean’s ... Read More »

Despite the exodus of major U.S. publishers from BookExpo America – the new incarnation of the American Booksellers Association Convention and Trade Exhibit in Chicago – most Canadian publishers who’ve attended the event in the ... Read More »

Attentive customers of Blockbuster Video have likely noticed that over the past two years, the chain’s product mix has broadened considerably, and now includes not just videos but computer games, Sega-Genesis machines, candy, some magazines, ... Read More »

The Canada Council for the Arts mailed out its last operating grants to service organizations last month, leaving arts associations with little choice but to cut costs dramatically and seek new sources of revenue. The ... Read More »

Competition from Chapters in the rapidly growing book superstore market appears to be taking its toll on Bollum’s Books. Lawyers acting on behalf of the independent chain’s owner, Tom Bollum, filed a notice of intent ... Read More »

A handful of books still scheduled for release as Lester Publishing titles could be the latest victims of the demise of the Ontario Development Corporation’s loan guarantee program. Although Lester Publishing has been winding down ... Read More »

Don Phelan bills his company as the fastest-growing mass market publisher in North America – and speaks with the conviction of someone who means it. There’s no denying he has ambitious goals: Phelan says his Edmonton-based ... Read More »

Christmas, for the majority of Canadian booksellers, felt the way it should in 1996: cheerful. Retailers contacted in early January for Q&Q’s annual survey agreed the industry had fully recovered from the retail rut of ... Read More »

When Edwards Books & Art went into receivership early in January, it marked not only the death of a prominent Canadian mini-chain, but also one of the largest bankruptcies in the book retail sector in ... Read More »