Dwindling finances and a membership poll led the Canadian Booksellers Association board to ask for the resignation of executive director Sheryl McKean last week, says CBA president Todd Anderson. McKean will not be replaced, at ... Read More »

A delay in issuing the most recent wave of Book Publishing Industry Development Program grants has many firms nervous. And Canadian Heritage says it will be at least mid-November before publishers see cheques.With this year’s ... Read More »

In another surprise shakeup at a major house, Raincoast Books has dismissed fiction editor Joy Gugeler and plans to reduce its fiction output – though associate publisher Michelle Benjamin told Inside Report the two moves ... Read More »

Longtime HarperCollins Canada marketing executive Judy Brunsek has abruptly left the company, in what president David Kent calls a restructuring of the special markets department.Brunsek, a widely respected sales and marketing veteran, was let go ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart celebrated its sense of tradition at its annual fall launch party in Toronto in late September – even as the event broke with several minor traditions of its own.For the first time ... Read More »

As publishers gear up for what should be a strong fall season – with new titles from Margaret Atwood and Maeve Binchy, among others – Chapters’ changing retail strategy has inspired a case of Survivor-like ... Read More »