Cycling toursWhen Ted Schredd says he's going on a bike trip, he means marathon. In 1992, the former Vancouver radio reporter embarked on a ten-and-a-half month, 13,000-kilometre tour of North America, which he later recounted ... Read More »

A new agency has begun operating in Quebec to oversee and licence copying of books and magazines. Helene Messier, formerly a copyright officer for Radio-Canada, has been appointed director general of Copibec, which was formed ... Read More »

After listening to a Calgary book club clinically dissect her latest novel - too many characters, they said, not enough emotional depth, and the first 50 pages were so slow-moving some readers wanted to abandon ... Read More »

HarperCollins has created a new I home for its literary fiction and non-| fiction: HarperFlamingo, a new imprint that publisher Iris Tupholme plans to unveil this fall with a roster of big-name authors that include ... Read More »

Paul-Herve Desrosiers wasn't an ordinary hardware store owner, and the biography of him that his grand-nephew commissioned author Pierre Turgeon to write is far from a standard laudatory portrait. That much is clear from a ... Read More »

As the Canadian dollar plum-p meted in January to below the 69 cent U.S. mark, at least one distributor has had to bite the bullet and raise retail prices on some of its imported titles.H.B. ... Read More »