Fitzhenry & Whiteside has purchased the Toronto-based Trifolium Books, a publisher of primarily teacher-education titles established in 1990. Details of the sale, completed last week, were not disclosed.The deal adds 50 to 65 titles to ... Read More »

Key Porter’s long-time sales and marketing director, Bonnie Harris, will jump to the same position at Thomas Allen & Son later this month.For Thomas Allen, the sales and marketing director role is a new one, ... Read More »

Patrons of Prince Edward Island’s Provincial Library Service are paying off overdue fees with everything from cans of tuna to boxes of pasta over the next two months.During the second annual Food for Fees program, ... Read More »

The death of the Queen Mother has Dundurn Press rushing back to press for a special memorial edition of The Queen Mother and Her Century: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother on Her 100th Birthday.Written by ... Read More »

After only eight months as director of trade sales and marketing for Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Helena Aalto is leaving to become the interim executive director of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC).Aalto has been hired ... Read More »

When the book industry formed a steering committee last fall to look into improving bibliographic and point-of-sale data collection, a deadline of Apr. 1 was set for recommendations on new systems. The process is taking ... Read More »

Nova Scotia writers are in shock after the sudden shutdown of the Nova Scotia Arts Council last week.Without prior warning, the provincial Progressive Conservative government fired the council’s executive director and council members and locked ... Read More »

General Distribution Services will close its western warehouse following the departure of its two biggest Canadian clients, Douglas & McIntyre and Key Porter Books. And more publishers, frustrated by continuing slow payment schedules, are poised ... Read More »