Talon Books has new owners. Longtime owners Karl and Christy Siegler have sold a majority stake in the Vancouver publishing house to Kevin Williams and his wife Vicki, effective today. Williams, the former Raincoast exec ... Read More »

Philip Marchand, the Toronto Star’s longtime in-house book critic, has been reassigned. Starting in the new year, Marchand will be reviewing movies at the Star, while Geoff Pevere, currently a film critic, will shift totoronto-star-switches-up-book-critics/> ... Read More »

The Canada Council for the Arts has tagged ECW Press to publish an anthology of the CBC Literary Award winners for the years 2001 to 2006. The book will be released in February 2008, to ... Read More »

University of Ottawa Press has launched its first trade imprint, dubbed Cangrande and devoted to “science-based fiction” – in other words, works of fiction with a strong scientific basis. The imprint’s debut title, Hera, or ... Read More »

In the thick of the holiday shopping season, some booksellers are reporting a boost in sales over last year – but generally only if they’ve marked down their stock to compensate for the discrepancy between ... Read More »

A Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, publisher is ramping up production of its series of guidebooks on Canadian cities and provinces. MacIntyre Purcell Publishing’s two-year-old Book of Everything series expanded from three to nine titles this fall, ... Read More »