Second-quarter sales are up for Chapters Online but stagnant for the chain’s retail stores as Chapters Inc. posted a consolidated net loss for the year to date of $7.8-million on revenues of $154.1-million. In financial ... Read More »

Canadian publishers can take heart: André Schiffrin thinks the Canadian scene – with the federal government’s support for smaller publishers and its controls on•foreign influence – can teach its neighbour to the south a thing ... Read More »

Agent Jan Whitford of Westwood Creative Artists scored one of the biggest deals for a Canadian at Frankfurt, accepting an “irresistible offer” on the second day of the fair for U.K. rights to Sir Francis ... Read More »

Talking chain store blues • The Frankfurt Book Fair is one of those rare occasions when many Canadian publishers are thrown together in one room. So what do they talk about? Chapters, natch.Rumours au moment ... Read More »

At a press conference at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel last Sunday, J.K. Rowling openly confessed to being nervous about reading at the SkyDome today. And who wouldn’t be? But she’s not anxious about coming up ... Read More »

While most attention today will focus on this year’s nominees for the Governor General’s Award, Canadian Scholars’ Press has announced it will republish the award’s very first fiction winner under a new imprint, Brown Bear ... Read More »

Two Canadians are sharing this year’s $30,000 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, announced on Saturday in San Francisco. Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost (McClelland & Stewart) and Michael David Kwan’s Things That Must Not Be Forgotten ... Read More »

Balmur Book Publishing has dramatically increased the number of titles in its book bag by buying the PEI-based Ragweed Press. Having just begun its publishing program last year, Balmur had only five books in print ... Read More »

Since the market is still uncharted, selling e-books may be only for the adventurous. But Calgary-based Outsideguide.com is counting on adventuresome travelers to form a solid customer base. Having already procured non-exclusive electronic distribution rights ... Read More »