A weak Canadian dollar has helped romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises turn a good second quarter, according to a press release issued yesterday from parent company Torstar. In second-quarter results ending June 30, total revenue was ... Read More »

A tribute to Alice Munro will kick off this year’s Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival on Oct. 18. Munro, who recently won the Man Booker International Prize, will be honoured by five international authors: ... Read More »

The Literary Press Group’s latest summer marketing campaign will put the spotlight on a dozen backlist titles from some of Canada’s best-known writers. The Great Big Roots campaign, which will be featured in 26 independent ... Read More »

Colleagues and friends are mourning the passing of editor Saeko Usukawa, who died earlier this month after a battle with cancer. Usukawa began her career at Macmillan in Toronto, where she became the firm’s youngest ... Read More »

A Toronto-based author and academic has developed a prototype that combines the best of both the codex book (i.e., printed book) and the e-book. The new platform, called the sBook or SmartBook, is essentially a ... Read More »