Vancouver Public Library’s Canadian Book Camp, a week-long summer program linking enthusiastic young writers with professional authors, will return for a second round next week.Scheduled for Aug. 12-16, the day camp has booked 100 children ... Read More »

Warehouse snags and work slowdowns at General Distribution Services mean more bad news for client publishers. As of Aug. 2, only eight of the 121 client firms waiting to reclaim their stock had all their ... Read More »

Even as General Publishing was in court today reporting on GDS’s situation and struggling to hang on to co-publication rights for a David Suzuki title, a fresh round of layoffs was hitting the company.Administrative vice-president ... Read More »

Books and activity titles featuring Barney, the large purple dinosaur of PBS television fame, now have a new Canadian distributor. In June Scholastic Canada reached a deal with Barney licensors HIT Entertainment. Pat Strachan, trade ... Read More »

An updated edition of 100 Days in the Jungle, co-authored by Edmonton Journal reporters Shawn Ohler and Vicki Hall, will be available next month to tie in with the airing of a CTV movie inspired ... Read More »

Second quarter results for McGraw-Hill Ryerson show sales increases in the company’s strong-performing higher education and school divisions, which offset flat revenue in its trade division. The company posted net income of $1.03-million in the ... Read More »

Fitzhenry & Whiteside got the list, but Lobster Press got the editor.Lobster Press announced Monday that former Stoddart Kids publisher Kathryn Cole had joined the company as editor-in-chief. Neither Cole nor Lobster publisher Alison Fripp ... Read More »

Ontario author Julie E. Czerneda has won twice at this year’s Aurora Awards, which honour Canadian science fiction and fantasy.Czerneda won in the best long-form work in English category for her novel In the Company ... Read More »

A new scholarship at Simon Fraser University will memorialize Manuela Dias, the late Turnstone Press managing editor.The Manuela Dias Memorial Endowment fund will provide financial support for students taking a master’s degree in Publishing Studies ... Read More »

Former international clients of General Distribution Services have begun to sign with new distributors in Canada. Watson-Guptill Publications of New York has become the first client of Georgetown Terminal Warehouse’s new sales and marketing company, ... Read More »