On March 27, the doors of Village Books in Wortley Village – the small, tree-lined shopping district of London, Ontario – will close for the final time. The used bookstore was founded in 1999 by ... Read More »
March 18, 2010
Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly has acquired North American rights to Joe Ollmann’s first full-length graphic novel, Mid-Life, to be published in March 2011. The deal was arranged by Samantha Haywood of the Transatlantic Literary Agency. ... Read More »
March 18, 2010
Alan Bradley's The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie has won the 2009 Dilys Award, given annually by the U.S.-based Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to the book that its members most enjoyed hand-selling. The ... Read More »
March 15, 2010
BookManager, the inventory-management software company for indie bookstores, has launched an updated version of its software in the hopes of providing clients with faster, more up-to-date service. According to Michael Neill, president of BookManager and ... Read More »
March 15, 2010
Toronto-based science-fiction author Peter Watts is set to face trial on Tuesday in Port Huron, Michigan, after being accused of assaulting a border cop during an incident there on Dec. 8, 2009. Watts continues to ... Read More »
March 15, 2010
The first deadline has passed for the federal government to complete its review of an application from Amazon to set up a Canadian distribution centre. According to the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Investment Canada ... Read More »
March 15, 2010 | Filed under: Book news
Historian and University of Waterloo professor John English has won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968–2000 (Knopf Canada), the second volume in English’s ... Read More »
March 11, 2010
After several months on short-term contracts, both Ron Eckel and Krista Willis of The Cooke Agency International have joined the company as full-time employees. Eckel, a former rights agent for Random House of Canada, now ... Read More »
March 11, 2010
Nova Scotia libraries have won a major fight with the provincial government. Earlier this week, the Department of Education announced it will continue to cover the costs of Internet services in public libraries across the ... Read More »
March 11, 2010
When the last remaining location of the family-owned Duthie Books chain closed last month in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, it left a significant void in the local indie bookselling scene. But Ria Bleumer, a former manager ... Read More »
March 11, 2010
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