John Knechtel, the principal behind Toronto’s Alphabet City Media, is admirably stoic about the white elephant that nearly stamped out his firm’s finances. Fittingly wrapped in an ivory-white front cover, Lost in the Archives – ... Read More »

Canadian e-publishing recently got another boost with a new multimillion-dollar deal between a content provider and a consortium of Canadian universities. Since 2005, Gibson Library Connections has been putting together a library of e-texts from ... Read More »

Electronic textbooks may soon get a big boost in Canada. A U.S.-based online marketplace for digital college textbooks is setting its sights on Canadian students, faculty, and booksellers as it aims to become the iTunes ... Read More »

“I was very much enjoying not running a publishing company,” says Don LePan, a little wistfully. The Broadview Press founder and president, 54, is referring to his brief period of semi-retirement. Back in 2005, LePan ... Read More »

The job of book publicity has never been an easy one, but over the past year or so it has gone from being merely difficult to virtually untenable. Dedicated book sections – from the Toronto ... Read More »

One hundred years ago, Albert Bigelow Paine chronicled a three-week trout-fishing trip in what is now the Tobeatic Wilderness Area of Nova Scotia. The Tent Dwellers was published sin 1908, and a century later, Nimbusthe-tent-dwellers/> ... Read More »