Last fall, Toronto-based author Sheila Heti was working in a salon and found herself brushing out the hair of a bigwig literary agent. “[The agent] was like, ‘Sheila! What are you doing here? Is this ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
When Kate Pullinger’s novel The Mistress of Nothing won the Governor General’s Literary Award this past November, the timing couldn’t have been better for the book’s publisher, McArthur & Company. As of January 1, the ... Read More »
By most accounts, the TD Reading Summit, held in Toronto last November, exceeded the expectations of organizers. The event drew a large crowd, turned a profit, and attracted media attention. Indeed, of the two-thirds of ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
Victoria publisher Brindle & Glass has focused almost exclusively on adult titles since it was founded 10 years ago. But the surprise success of Kidmonton: True Stories of River City Kids, its first foray into ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
Toronto high school is leading the push toward adopting e-textbooks. Last fall, Blyth Academy became the first school in North America to wholeheartedly embrace digital publishing when it equipped its 155 students with Sony Readers ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
It’s not easy being Canada’s northernmost publisher. But for Nunavut’s Inhabit Media, which has its head office in Iqaluit, doing business above the 60th parallel has proven a winning proposition. Steeped in spirits, mythology, and ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
Most U.S. publishers have already entered into the e-book market and are selling titles via multiple platforms. Canadian firms, however, have been slower to get in the game. It takes only a few minutes of ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
Booksellers have long relied on consumer sales data to inform everything from ordering decisions to in-store displays to event programming, but until recently, libraries have been unable to get an accurate snapshot of consumer trends. ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
It’s 3:18 a.m. on a weekday at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library. Of the 18,000 people who passed through here today, only 100 or so remain. Some sit slumped in their seats, dozing off ... Read More »
August 13, 2010
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