Ownership and technology changes are still pressing issues, but book publishers remain skeptical about corporate convergence as a business strategy. That was a key message at the second “Six Degrees of Integration” conference in Toronto ... Read More »

A Victoria teacher has won the Writers’ Union of Canada’s annual Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers.The annual contest is open to writers who have not yet published in book format, but Janice McCachen, this ... Read More »

Michael Schellenberg has been promoted to senior editor at Penguin Canada. Penguin’s editorial department is in a state of transition, with publisher Cynthia Good set to depart next month, but Schellenberg’s promotion is unrelated and ... Read More »

Booksellers and their customers will have to wait a little longer for one of the year’s major fiction titles. Doubleday Canada has quietly moved David Adams Richards’ novel River of the Brokenhearted, originally scheduled for ... Read More »

Another senior executive from the defunct Stoddart empire has landed at a new home. Brian O’Donnell, formerly president of Irwin Publishing, started yesterday as director, business development, for Access Copyright. He will be handling the ... Read More »

Former Stoddart executive Barbara Howson is returning to Kids Can Press.Effective Mar. 17, Howson will join Kids Can as vice-president, rights and licensing. She will take the place of Karen Boersma, who will move to ... Read More »

Don Sedgwick will leave Centennial College this spring, at the end of his fifth academic year as co-ordinator of the Book and Magazine Publishing Program.“The program is in good shape,” says Sedgwick. “I’m leaving at ... Read More »

In a cost-saving move, Random House of Canada will eliminate its Canadian customer service department this spring, resulting in several layoffs.The Canadian employees will be phased out in late April or early May, says Kelly ... Read More »

The industry toll of the Stewart House Publishing bankruptcy became clearer this week with the release of a list of creditors. Among the company’s unsecured creditors are four Canadian publishers owed more than $100,000 each.According ... Read More »

Quebec school libraries are in deplorable condition, a leaked report from the province’s Ministry of Education revealed in December. But a plan for secondary school curriculum reform unveiled last week offers little hope that funds ... Read More »