Cost-cutting and increased sales have helped reduce losses at Indigo by 76% in the latest quarter, the company said last week. But missing from the Indigo results is a sense of how the company’s online ... Read More »

Last week Rohinton Mistry was reportedly a close second in the Man Booker Prize deliberations; this week he was second to none in the Kiriyama Prize competition. Mistry’s novel Family Matters (McClelland & Stewart) won ... Read More »

Joan Thomas, best known for her book reviews in The Globe and Mail and elsewhere, is the new literary officer for the Manitoba Arts Council.The Winnipeg-based writer took over the part-time position on Oct. 15. ... Read More »

Three Ontario writers received grants this week under the Ontario Arts Council’s new Chalmers Program.Toronto poet M. Nourbese Philip and Guelph writer Nathalie Stephens each received around $20,000 in a Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which funds ... Read More »

A lapsed Toronto restaurant guide has been revived by former Indigo executive Dan Mozersky.Patron’s Pick, a regularly updated title first published in 1989 by Baby Boomer Press, is available in a new edition in Toronto ... Read More »

Deloitte & Touche, the accounting company that steered General Publishing through creditor protection and then bankruptcy, billed more than $1.1-million for its services between April and September, court documents show.The total – which does not ... Read More »

The mostly launchless days of summer came to an end in early September with a series of book events in Toronto. HarperCollins Canada launched Andrew Pyper’s The Trade Mission at the Paddock Tavern, a favourite ... Read More »

Tolkien books racked up retail sales of more than $30-million in Canada last year. So the daunting question facing HarperCollins Canada with less than two months until the release of the movie version of The ... Read More »