Over the past few weeks, the League of Canadian Poets has been publicly accusing Access Copyright – the association responsible for collecting photocopying fees for copyrighted materials and distributing the proceeds to authors and publishers ... Read More »

The International Festival of Authors has set the roster for its inaugural International Visitors (I.V.) program. Several high-level international publishing figures, from various countries, will attend this year’s IFOA, held in Toronto later this month. ... Read More »

The International Festival of Authors has hit upon a novel promotional gimmick for this year’s fest: giving away books on the streets of downtown Toronto. During rush hour this Thursday morning, approximately 1,000 copies of ... Read More »

The Frankfurt Book Fair is just getting underway, but already there appears to be at least one Canadian title poised to make a splash there: John Geiger’s The Third Man Factor, published by Penguin Canada. ... Read More »

Canada has always seemed to punch above its own weight in the realm of graphic novels. Drawn & Quarterly, one of the world’s most renowned graphica publishers, calls Canada home, and so do many of ... Read More »

Last fall, consumer anger over book prices was boiling over, and indie booksellers were panicking. “We’re dying out here,” McNally Robinson manager Chris Hall said at the time. “We’re telling publishers they have no choice ... Read More »

Janice LaDuke, co-owner of Black Cat Books in Lennoxville, Quebec, says there’s one book in her store “that everyone wants right now – and it’s not something they saw on Oprah.” That would be local ... Read More »

Popular literature these days is increasingly international. But back in 1981, when novelist M.G. Vassanji and his wife, Nurjehan Aziz, started the Toronto South Asian Review, they were frustrated by how difficult it was to ... Read More »