Dundurn Press continues to grow with the acquisition this week of Napoleon & Company, cementing the Toronto company’s status as one of Canada’s largest domestically owned publishers. Dundurn publisher Kirk Howard acquired Napoleon from owner ... Read More »

Firefly Books has eliminated 10 positions at its distribution centre in Richmond Hill, Ontario. According to president Lionel Koffler, the layoffs, which took effect last week, were the result of lower return rates, customer service–related ... Read More »

The Canadian arm of Oxford University Press is advising independent booksellers to source direct from the company’s Toronto offices following the formal bankruptcy of H.B. Fenn and Company Friday. OUP handles sales and distribution to ... Read More »

Bryan Prince, owner of Hamilton’s Bryan Prince Bookseller, has sold the business to two longtime employees, sisters Tracey Higgins and Kerry Cranston. “I can say with great pride and unwavering confidence that Bryan Prince Bookseller ... Read More »

H.B. Fenn and Company has officially declared bankruptcy after filing a notice of intention earlier this month. On Friday, the Bolton, Ontario–based distributor filed a voluntary assignment into bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, ... Read More »

Children’s publishing veteran Gail Winskill, formerly of Scholastic Canada and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, has resigned from her current position as publisher of Dancing Cat Books, an imprint of Toronto’s Cormorant Books she helped launch last ... Read More »