Canadian booksellers lost one of their most passionate colleagues earlier this month, when Mary Sutherland, manager of the University of Regina Bookstore, died of cancer. She was 57. “Mary always thought she was going to ... Read More »

The east African country of Tanzania will soon be handing out its first ever national book award, thanks to a Canadian NGO and a Toronto-based businessman named Bill Burt. The Burt Award for African Literature, ... Read More »

It sounds like a tempting read: University of Toronto professor John W. Moffatt’s Reinventing Gravity offers a scientific theory that contradicts Einstein’s theory of relativity. Maybe too tempting, in fact. According to publisher Thomas Allen ... Read More »

Frog Hollow Books, one of Halifax’s indie bookselling mainstays, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, but if store owner Heidi Hallett can’t renegotiate the current lease – or find a new place to set up ... Read More »

Elementary school librarians in the Toronto District School Board are getting ready to spend their share of the $15-million set aside by the Ontario government for new library books, but it looks like less than ... Read More »

McGraw-Hill Ryerson managed to finish out its fiscal year in the black, no mean feat in the current economic climate. According to year-end results released late last week, total revenue for 2008 was $94.6-million, an ... Read More »

In another dismaying sign of the times, this year’s Halifax International Writers Festival has been cancelled. The fest, which was scheduled to take place April 1-4, was preparing to celebrate its fifth anniversary. Festival founder ... Read More »