Not so hot? Canadian authors are a hot commodity internationally, right? Well, maybe not quite as hot as we’d like to believe. More than one publisher noted the omission of Canada from a map of ... Read More »

With a major new agency deal, H.B. Fenn moves up a few steps in the Canadian publishing hierarchy. The 24-year-old distributor will take over distribution of a number of Holtzbrinck Publishers imprints from McClelland & ... Read More »

Time was when the opening of an independent book store wasn’t all that newsworthy – but times have changed. Hot on the heels of two store openings in August – its 10th store, in Mission, ... Read More »

For the past couple of years or so, Canadian award-spotters have had our top two fiction honours all figured out. The Giller, they say, is the blue-chip prize, the reserve of CanLit giants, while the ... Read More »

Four in 10 Canadian university students believe that high textbook prices justify the illegal downloading of texts, although almost none of the respondents to an informal Q&Q campus poll had ever downloaded a book themselves. The ... Read More »

Is the Frankfurt Book Fair in danger of losing its status as the pre-eminent international rights event? After rising levels of discontent at this year’s fair in October, some regular Canadian attendees are showing more ... Read More »

After a soft 2002 holiday season, independent booksellers are cautiously optimistic about this year’s. “It has to be better – we’ve had a pretty busy October,” says Laurie Greenwood, owner of Greenwood’s Volume II in ... Read More »

Thanks to the work of scholars across the country on a massive collaborative project, Canada is taking its place as a world leader in the new study of book history. The goal of The History ... Read More »

In a season of big, sprawling books, Patrick Crean is hoping a little one will stand out. Crean, publisher at Thomas Allen, published Alberto Manguel’s novella Stevenson Under the Palm Trees in September. The book, a ... Read More »