by Steven W. Beattie

Author and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews investigates the history of pandemics from the Black Death through COVID-19

COVID-19 is not like other pandemics. Unlike SARS or Ebola, chasing this novel coronavirus seems like shooting at a moving target. That assessment comes from someone who should know: veterinarian and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews, whose ... Read More »

July 7, 2020

Publishers question how best to promote novels that have unexpected real-world relevance during COVID-19

By Steven W. Beattie

Novelists tend to be soothsayers, some more than others. When Saleema Nawaz completed the manuscript for her second novel, a polyphonic story about a group of people living through a global pandemic that is known ... Read More »

July 2, 2020

Silver Donald Cameron remembered as a careful, perceptive chronicler of life in a small Cape Breton community

By Steven W. Beattie

Everything about the life of Silver Donald Cameron seemed born out of story or storytelling, including his own rather idiosyncratic name. Born in Toronto and raised in Vancouver, in 1971 Cameron relocated to the small ... Read More »

June 18, 2020

Leona Trainer remembered as a trailblazer in the areas of sales and children’s publishing

By Steven W. Beattie

Though Leona Trainer may not be an immediately recognizable name to people outside the Canadian publishing industry – and the area of children’s publishing in particular – within the industry she was known as an ... Read More »

June 4, 2020

Indigo’s financial difficulties have a blowback effect for Canadian publishers and distributors

By Steven W. Beattie

The business fallout from COVID-19 has affected every sector of the book industry in Canada, and it has not spared the country’s largest chain bookseller. Indigo Books & Music Inc. shuttered all its physical locations ... Read More »

May 28, 2020

Nascent Ontario publisher Stelliform Press aims to produce science fiction, fantasy, and horror with an environmental bent

By Steven W. Beattie

As the climate crisis continues apace (notwithstanding having taken a back seat in the media to more immediate concerns in recent months), one nascent publisher is determined to address the subject, both in what it ... Read More »

May 4, 2020

Bill Hushion remembered as an irascible, good-humoured salesman who truly cared about books and bookselling

By Steven W. Beattie

Bill Hushion, the legendary Canadian publishing sales and marketing executive, once staked a promise of a discount on an arm wrestle. Donna Brendon, formerly a bookstore coordinator for the West Coast chain Save-On-Foods, found herself ... Read More »

April 15, 2020

Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Alex Trebek

By Steven W. Beattie

What is a presumptive national bestesller? The answer is the forthcoming memoir by long-time Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. Simon & Schuster announced today that the company has secured print and audio rights to Trebek’s book, ... Read More »

April 14, 2020

Doyali Islam, Kaie Kellough, and Sharon Olds among the nominees for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

By Steven W. Beattie

Toronto poet Doyali Islam’s second collection, heft, is among three Canadian titles in the running for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. Islam’s publisher, McClelland & Stewart, and its poetry editor, Dionne Brand, were responsible for ... Read More »

April 7, 2020

Book distributors work to deliver stock to customers during COVID-19

By Steven W. Beattie

If there is one thing that COVID-19 has clearly demonstrated, says Jamie Broadhurst, it is the resourcefulness with which booksellers in Canada have responded in an effort to keep getting books into the hands of ... Read More »

April 6, 2020

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Author and epidemiologist David Waltner-Toews investigates the history of pandemics from the Black Death through COVID-19

Publishers question how best to promote novels that have unexpected real-world relevance during COVID-19

Silver Donald Cameron remembered as a careful, perceptive chronicler of life in a small Cape Breton community

Leona Trainer remembered as a trailblazer in the areas of sales and children’s publishing

Indigo’s financial difficulties have a blowback effect for Canadian publishers and distributors

Nascent Ontario publisher Stelliform Press aims to produce science fiction, fantasy, and horror with an environmental bent

Bill Hushion remembered as an irascible, good-humoured salesman who truly cared about books and bookselling

Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Alex Trebek

Doyali Islam, Kaie Kellough, and Sharon Olds among the nominees for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

Book distributors work to deliver stock to customers during COVID-19

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