In an effort to increase the content it carries, the e-book retailer Shortcovers announced on Thursday a new service geared at getting small and mid-size publishers to digitize their content. The Publisher Conversion Program will ... Read More »

The Toronto District School Board has made amends with self-published author Ruowen Wang, who earlier this year accused the board of blanket-banning her series of 12 picture books on Chinese-Canadian culture. The incident in question, ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada has picked up a new distribution client. Effective immediately, the company is the Canadian distributor for the Los Angeles-based publisher BOOM! Studios, which publishes original and licensed comic books and graphic novels. The ... Read More »

Activist and author Christopher Shaw is used to a little bit of controversy, but a recent run-in with two security officers tied to the Vancouver Olympic Games has left him concerned about how the police ... Read More »

Hal Niedzviecki, the Toronto-based author of The Peep Diaries (published last month by the San Francisco-based City Light Publishers), is taking his research into “peep culture” a step further by immersing himself in the world ... Read More »