Simon & Schuster Canada will move its customer service and accounts receivable departments to the U.S. over the next two months as part of a company-wide strategy to reduce costs.S&S Canada president Deb Woods said ... Read More »

McArthur & Company has bought Canadian rights to an Iraqi civilian’s account of the recent conflict there – and is printing 25,000 copies for the Canadian market.Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog will be released worldwide ... Read More »

Canadian book and magazine publishers are mourning longtime editor Chuck Macli, who died early this month.Macli died in Toronto on July 5 at the age of 52, after suffering a heart attack. A public wake ... Read More »

Not quite six months after its attention-getting launch, Cantos International has no Toronto office or staffers, has published only one title, and is now being sued by the author of that title.Stephen Williams, author of ... Read More »

His publisher in India might be coming to Canada, but author Vikram Seth is sticking with his longtime Canadian publisher for his next book.McArthur & Company has bought Canadian rights to Seth’s non-fiction memoir Two ... Read More »

Four years after the Duthie Books mini-chain filed for bankruptcy protection, owner Celia Duthie has re-entered the business world with Duthie Bookcases, a line of hand-crafted bookshelves made from B.C. wood.The five pieces of the ... Read More »

In another sign of recovery for Cormorant Books, which was hit hard by last year’s General Distribution Services collapse, the firm will relocate to new office space next week.Publisher Marc Côté has been operating the ... Read More »

Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre plans to add an annual children’s author festival to its literary lineup, beginning in the summer of 2005.Harbourfront’s Geoffrey Taylor began planning the addition last month, after he took over as director ... Read More »

Fenn Publishing will continue to stake out its hockey niche this fall with a new series of young-adult adventure novels by Brian McFarlane.Best known as the voice of Hockey Night in Canada for 25 years, ... Read More »