Founded: 1971 by then-York University students Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert, and British animator and designer Clive Smith.Offices: Nelvana employs 500 in its Toronto animation studio, and at sales offices in Los Angeles, London, and ... Read More »

Since the early 1990s, U.S. independent The Tattered Cover has thrived – despite intense competition from chain superstores Barnes & Noble and Borders. Canadian bookstores wondering how the Denver company managed it may want to ... Read More »

• A European Commission investigation into the cross-border fixing of book prices in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland has provoked an angry response from Germany’s booksellers and publishers. Librodisk, an Austrian retail ... Read More »

Anatomy of a blurbAuthor: William BurrillClaim to fame: eye magazine columnistBook: Naked EyeBlurber: P. J. O’RourkeFirst contact between author and blurber: 1994. O’Rourke is in town promoting All the Trouble in the World. Burrill covers ... Read More »

• Bantam Doubleday Dell has the official novelization to the new film featuring those effete, British crimestoppers The Avengers (in theatres in August), and the tie-in edition of Anna Quindlen’s One True Thing , opening ... Read More »

It was past midnight in England. Bill Schiller had just spent two-and-a-half weeks sitting through Albert Walker’s June murder trial, going on four hours sleep a night and filing up to 1,800 words a day ... Read More »

Industry representatives and federal bureaucrats will have to clear two hurdles before seeing the release of regulations to accompany Canada’s new copyright legislation. The long-awaited regulations were “nailed down” earlier this year, according to an ... Read More »