Failure to meet U.S. sales targets has meant contraction for the Quebec children’s house Chouette Publishing, which laid off five employees earlier this month.Lise Chenier, vice-president of sales and marketing, says the Montreal-based firm has ... Read More »

Even as the Canadian Booksellers Association surveys its members on communications strategy, the group is also preparing to implement changes to its Canadian Bookseller magazine.Much of the survey currently being distributed focuses on the content ... Read More »

Abebooks, the Victoria-based used-bookstore network, has launched a new service to help customers identify long-forgotten favourite books.This book-hunting feature helps people who can only remember a few details about a book, such as a character’s ... Read More »

In an unconventional marketing move – for a book publisher, at least – HarperCollins Canada is placing ads for The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll in bar washrooms.Situated above urinals ... Read More »

The Canadian Book Network, the new agency charged with improving the book supply chain, officially came into existence yesterday, but already one organization isn’t happy with the makeup of the board.In a letter to the ... Read More »

Another bookseller has launched its own small-scale alternative to Canada’s major book prizes. On Tuesday, Words Worth Books in Waterloo, Ontario, named Helen Humphreys’ The Lost Garden (HarperFlamingo Canada) the winner of the first annual ... Read More »

Escalating costs for a planned flagship provincial library in Quebec may threaten Montreal’s efforts to improve library service throughout the megacity, says one city councillor.Last month Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications approved an additional ... Read More »

Remainder dealer Fairmount Books is hoping to raise $150,000 with its annual charity book sale this weekend.The sale offers thousands of overstock, remainders, and slightly damaged books at 40% to 90% off original publishers’ suggested ... Read More »

Man Booker Prize winner Yann Martel is back in Canada today, beginning a five-day author tour in Toronto that ends in Montreal on Tuesday.Tonight, Martel will read with Wayne Johnston and Giller Prize winner Austin ... Read More »