Despite the objections of booksellers and many Canadian-owned publishers, Amazon’s application to open a physical distribution facility in Canada has been approved by the Department of Canadian Heritage. Under Canadian ownership laws, Amazon’s expansion has ... Read More »

The Atlantic Book Festival is currently underway, with free literary events taking place all over the east coast. One of the highlights of the festival will be the announcement, on April 14, of the Atlantic ... Read More »

For the past few months, the Association of Canadian Publishers has been attempting to negotiate terms of trade for Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iPad, and many other e-reading devices that have recently flooded the market. While ... Read More »

Follett of Canada, a subsidiary of the U.S.-owned Follett Corporation, will be closing up shop permanently at the end of this month. The Ottawa-based firm, which manages 35 campus bookstores across Canada, is consolidating operations ... Read More »

Nearly nine years after Pi Patel tamed the tiger in the Man Booker Prize–winning Life of Pi, Yann Martel is back with his follow-up, Beatrice & Virgil. Knopf Canada, which unleashed an initial Canadian printbeatrice-virgil/> ... Read More »