Key Porter Books has a new senior editor concentrating on literary non-fiction. Meg Taylor will join the company next Monday.Taylor will be acquiring in the biography, history, business, and sports categories. She will also oversee ... Read More »

Canadian Manda Group has a new special sales manager – Scholastic Canada’s Pat O’Neill (formerly Strachan) joined the company last week.O’Neill has taken over from Janet Joy Wilson, and will oversee Manda’s gift-account sales team. ... Read More »

Call it publishing boot camp. For 20 years, young people have packed up a suitcase and headed to Banff (later to Simon Fraser University) for two weeks of intensive instruction in how to be a ... Read More »

The 100-plus employees at the Indigo Bookstore in downtown Montreal have just been accredited as a bargaining unit under Quebec labour law. The store is the first to unionize in the Indigo chain, but just ... Read More »

Former Stoddart Publishing designer Angel Guerra has resurfaced as associate publisher and editor-in-chief for Pierre Turgeon’s new English-language publishing house.Cantos International Publishing has other Stoddart connections as well. The house’s spring line includes titles by ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart’s plan to sell Macfarlane Walter & Ross is part of a general cost-cutting effort that also includes a cutdown on freelance editing and a reduction in publishing output, says president Doug Gibson.The ... Read More »

Citing the needs of a growing business, Douglas & McIntyre has created a new executive position, appointing longtime outside legal counsel to vice-president of operations, corporate and legal affairs.Karen Gilmore, formerly with national law firm ... Read More »

Publishers and writers are donating children’s books to a Toronto-area library recovering from flood damage.A burst pipe at the Richmond Hill Central Library late last month flooded the children’s section, damaging about 45,000 volumes, representing ... Read More »

Keen readers of The Globe and Mail’s weekend “Books” section will notice some changes this Saturday.Children’s and mystery book reviews will be featured more prominently and there will be more of them, though they will ... Read More »