Canadian golfer Mike Weir’s win at the U.S. Masters could pay off for publisher McClelland & Stewart next fall.Before the tournament, author Lorne Rubenstein had already signed with M&S to chronicle Weir’s efforts to win ... Read More »

The Porcupine’s Quill is advertising as far off the book pages as you can get to support P. K. Page’s Planet Earth: Poems Selected and New. This spring the title will be featured on billboard ... Read More »

For declining downtowns seeking urban renewal, public libraries offer a good return on investment. That was the theme of a day-long seminar in Toronto last Thursday about the role of libraries in urban settings. Speakers ... Read More »

Canadian school libraries have a new set of national standards, and even their own national day. But a summit yesterday at the International Forum on Canadian Children’s Literature in Ottawa offered little reassurance that school ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada is aiming to make significant improvements to its warehousing and supply chain systems, and has hired an executive from the company’s New York office to implement the changes.Christopher North, formerly vice-president and general ... Read More »

Statistics Canada’s latest survey of book publishers and exclusive agents paints a rosy picture of the Canadian book trade at the end of the century.Sales by publishers operating in Canada, including exports and other foreign ... Read More »

Creditors of Lobster Press, which is currently under bankruptcy protection, may have to wait until mid-August before seeing the company’s restructuring plan.The Montreal children’s publisher is still preparing a proposal that would offer creditors a ... Read More »