The evidence is only anecdotal, but a number of Canadian publishers are reporting that Indigo has been returning books in abnormally high quantities over the past month or so. One publisher, who preferred to speak ... Read More »

HarperCollins suffered a massive decline in profits over the past 12 months, according to financial results posted yesterday by parent company NewsCorp. Operating income for the year plummeted to $17 million from $160 million in ... Read More »

Indie “dark fiction” publisher ChiZine Publications has dramatically ramped up its production slate in advance of this weekend’s massive science fiction convention in Montreal, known as Anticipation. The idea, according to ChiZine co-publisher Sandra Kasturi, ... Read More »

Frank Parker Day’s 1928 novel Rockbound, about two warring fishing families on a small island off the coast of Nova Scotia, might not seem like ideal material for a musical, but a musical it hasrockbound-musical-packs-em-in/> ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada editorial director Jennifer Lambert has acquired English-language Canadian rights to two books by the Montreal-based Catherine McKenzie. McKenzie’s first novel, Sober, is about a struggling thirtysomething writer who takes an undercover assignment to ... Read More »