Former Stoddart Publishing authors can now formally apply for compensation for lost royalties, say those in charge of an emergency federal fund. But they shouldn’t expect to recoup all of their losses: the available funds ... Read More »

A controversy over the naming of a Halifax street has local publishers and booksellers defending the name of renowned author Thomas Head Raddall, but the issue appears to have done little to boost interest in ... Read More »

A number of authors affiliated with the defunct Stoddart Publishing have landed new publishing deals for their former Stoddart titles.Douglas & McIntyre will reissue Mark Zuehlke’s Ortona and The Liri Valley, about Canadians’ participation in ... Read More »

Few will be surprised that the biggest hit of the 2002 holiday season turned out to be a 2001 title. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi (Vintage Canada) took off after winning the Man Booker Prize ... Read More »

B.C. children’s press Orca Book Publishers will take on its own distribution duties next month, with a discount policy designed to encourage non-returnable orders.Beginning Feb. 1, Orca will warehouse and distribute its stock from its ... Read More »

Food for Thought Books in Golden, B.C., has been sold and renamed. The bookstore opened yesterday under its new ownership as Bacchus Books.Caleb Moss, a former teacher and therapist, bought the store from friend and ... Read More »

The Association of Canadian Publishers has appointed John Pelletier, a bilingual lawyer with several years’ experience in the cultural sector, as its new executive director.Pelletier, who most recently held the position of general counsel and ... Read More »

Georgetown Publications, the sales agency formed last summer by Georgetown Terminal Warehouse, will branch into book publishing after opening a new office in downtown Toronto this month.The Toronto office will open next week, giving the ... Read More »

Halifax specialty bookseller Roswell Computer Books has recovered approximately $40,000 from a bankrupt customer after well over a year of legal wrangling.When ITI Education, which ran a chain of private computer training colleges across North ... Read More »