The University of Toronto Press could face an employee strike next week if it fails to reach a new contract with 33 shipping and receiving workers.The employees, represented by Local 3261 of the Canadian Union ... Read More »

Marginal Distribution, the Peterborough, Ontario-based distributor of alternative and small-press publications, has been sold to Disticor, a periodical distributor based in Ajax, Ontario.Esther Vincent and Ryan Kerr, who have owned Marginal since 1996, sold the ... Read More »

Roussan Publishing, a Montreal-based publisher of English-language children’s books, is closing down.The company, which hasn’t published a title since 2001, ceased distributing books last month after defaulting on a bank loan, says majority owner Kathryn ... Read More »

Five months after Gordon Platt was promoted from his position as head of the Canada Council for the Arts’ writing and publishing section, Wiley Canada editor Melanie Rutledge has been named as his replacement.Rutledge, 29, ... Read More »

After 23 years with Groundwood Books and Douglas & McIntyre, Kelly Mitchell will be leaving the company this fall.Mitchell, the marketing director at D&M’s Vancouver office, hopes to leave the post by mid-October, to help ... Read More »

Unlike retailers in some other industries, Ontario independent booksellers caught in Thursday’s blackout were at least spared the prospect of losing perishable inventory. “There are rotten books, but books don’t rot,” joked Hamilton bookseller Bryan ... Read More »

It was more of everything in Broadview Press’s recently released second-quarter results. The aggressively expanding firm saw growth in sales – as well as higher expenses and a higher net loss – for both the ... Read More »

Among the Kelowna businesses coping with the spread of the B.C. fire zone last week is the independent bookstore Mosaic Books. While downtown Kelowna is not directly threatened by the fires that have destroyed 250 ... Read More »

David Caron, who led the Literary Press Group through the General Distribution Services collapse and its aftermath last year, has won the Janice E. Handford Small Press Award for his efforts.The annual prize recognizes work ... Read More »

Publishers get small slice of extra OAC fundingMany Ontario publishers got a little extra in the latest round of Ontario Arts Council funding this month, thanks partly to an added funding infusion of $76,000 announced ... Read More »