The first words Bill Casselman will look up in the three new Canadian dictionaries being published in the next two years are “gorby” and “haw eater.”Casselman, a language buff and the author of Casselman’s Canadian ... Read More »

Cannon Books officially terminated its operations at the end of October, closing out a protracted wind-down for the former wholesale firm, which began operating in 1975.After losing much of its business to North 49 Books, ... Read More »

Stoddart Publishing has won its legal fight to continue distributing a book about Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, but the publisher does not see the victory as one that will alter the legal landscape for publishing ... Read More »

Undaunted by negative signals from Finance Minister Paul Martin, the Don’t Tax Reading Coalition is continuing to press the Liberal government to remove the GST on reading materials.The coalition this fall has launched the second ... Read More »

Heritage Minister Sheila Copps has quietly injected an extra $5-million into the “aid to publishers” component of the federal Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). The additional funding, which will be handed out during the ... Read More »

A major computer meltdown at Canbook – the warehouse/distribution joint venture run by Penguin and McClelland & Stewart – has left booksellers across the country struggling to sort through months of botched shipments, lost purchase ... Read More »

QUEBEC EXPANDS ENGLISH PROGRAMQuebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications has doubled to $20,000 the budget for a program to bring the province’s English-language writers and their books to the province’s English schools. Twenty-three schools scattered around ... Read More »

Heather Reisman’s bookstore venture has a new name, Indigo! Books & Music. On the advice of its lawyers, the company dropped the chain’s original working name, Now! Books & Music, after a trademark challenge from ... Read More »

A potentially disastrous timing squeeze is threatening several Ontario publishers, whose provincial loan guarantees are expiring just before Ottawa is expected to step forward with its own revamped credit program. But a spokesperson for Heritage minister ... Read More »