Client publishers of General Distribution Services say their stomachs are still churning over efforts to retrieve their books, but many say one factor is letting them breathe easier. The estimated stock transfer fees – due ... Read More »

Thomas Allen & Son is looking for publicity support for its downtown office following the departure of marketing and publicity director Denise Anderson last month.Bonnie Harris, Allen’s sales and marketing director since April, is currently ... Read More »

When it launches its new online rights management system this fall, CanCopy, the Canadian Rights Licensing Agency, will also unveil a name change and a new image. The agency will now be called Access Copyright, ... Read More »

Following the layoff of all staff at General and Musson Publishing just over a week ago, Georgetown Terminal Warehouse has launched a new sales and marketing division, Georgetown Publications, to court a number of General’s ... Read More »

Just two years after publishing the story of her own life, storyteller and children’s author Joan Bodger has died of cancer.Bodger died in Tofino, B.C., last week, at the age of 79. Her funeral will ... Read More »

A bronze lectern at the Alice Munro Literary Garden in the author’s hometown of Wingham, Ontario, praises Munro for the “vivid sense of regional focus” in her writing. At the garden’s grand opening on Wednesday, ... Read More »

Look for heavier promotion north of the border for Ingram’s print-on-demand and e-book division, Lightning Source, now that a former Canadian is heading the company.Toronto native J. Kirby Best, the division’s new president and CEO, ... Read More »

A court order imposing tight deadlines for client publishers to prepay for the release of their titles from General Distribution Services has left many scrambling to raise money – and some contemplating the loss of ... Read More »