Former independent bookseller and Indigo executive Michael Tamblyn has been appointed president and CEO of BookNet Canada, the book trade’s recently formed supply chain agency. BookNet Canada chair Peter Waldock says Tamblyn’s combination of book-business ... Read More »

The Writers’ Union of Canada has called an industry-wide meeting, hoping to brainstorm ways to improve the overall health of Canadian publishing. The half-day meeting is planned for next Friday in Toronto. It will address ... Read More »

This week’s finalized City of Toronto budget brought some good news for the megacity’s library system. For the first time since 1998, city politicians are prepared to guarantee the Toronto Public Library access to a ... Read More »

The Banff International Literary Translation Centre, the first of its kind in North America, will hold its inaugural session this summer. Translators have until Mar. 30 to apply for the 15 places in the three-week ... Read More »

Austin Clarke’s novel The Polished Hoe has won the Commonwealth Writers Prize Best Book Award for the Canada/Caribbean region. And Clarke will be the home-country favourite when the overall Commonwealth winner is announced in May: ... Read More »

Pushing the boundaries of its “Books, Music & more” tagline further, Indigo.ca has added a new product to its online inventory: golf packages at selected courses around the country. Golf@Indigo – part of the www.indigo.ca ... Read More »

Alistair MacLeod has conquered another American reviewer’s heart with No Great Mischief (McClelland & Stewart), published in the U.S. market by W.W. Norton. Thomas Mallon, in Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, wrote that MacLeod’s ... Read More »

The textbook division of Quebec’s publishers association, the Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL), is taking steps to ensure that a new province-wide approach to teaching will mean no decrease in the use of ... Read More »

The following starred review of Finnie Walsh (Raincoast Books), by Steven Galloway, will appear in the September issue of Quill & Quire.We know from the very first sentence of Steven Galloway’s engaging debut novel, Finnie ... Read More »