Few Canadian publishers plan to honour the Frankfurt Book Fair’s request to accommodate expanded public hours at this year’s event. Added to perennial cost concerns, the issue has contributed to publisher unrest in the weeks ... Read More »

In an effort to promote handselling in the Indigo chain, a second major book company has begun organizing marketing presentations aimed at store-level staff – and relying on bookseller initiative to fill the attendance rolls.Today ... Read More »

A year and a half after leaving the publishing industry, Rosslyn Junke has returned to take up the new position of marketing director for Simon & Schuster Canada. Junke joined the company yesterday; she will ... Read More »

A new funding program announced by the Book Publishing Industry Development Program aims to help Canadian publishers improve their business savvy by bringing in outside consulting. In an effort to encourage publishers to commission analysis ... Read More »

Longtime Indigo spokesperson Tracy Nesdoly has abruptly resigned.Nesdoly, the vice-president of communcations, left the company this week; public relations will now be handled through the marketing department. Deirdre Horgan, the chain’s senior vice-president of marketing, ... Read More »

Coteau Books has a new marketing manager. Deborah Rush took over the spot at the beginning of this month, replacing Randy King, who left the Regina-based small press to study law at the University of ... Read More »

Will Ferguson has moved to a new publisher for his next book, a non-fiction look at Canadian geography and culture. Knopf Canada senior editor Michael Schellenberg and publisher Diane Martin have acquired the book for ... Read More »

The Man Booker Prize nomination for South African writer Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor has McClelland & Stewart moving the book’s Canadian publication up by three months.The publisher had originally planned to issue the book ... Read More »