A new survey released by the Victoria-based online bookselling platform AbeBooks.com has produced a sketch of the typical online bookseller. The study shows that most AbeBooks sellers are overwhelmingly drawn from the Baby Boom generation ... Read More »

Toronto small press Tightrope Books has announced plans to launch an annual anthology that aims to collect the best poems published each year in Canadian literary journals. Titled The Best Canadian Poetry in English, the ... Read More »

This week’s list covers the top fiction frontlist titles (that is, in editions published since last September) for the two weeks ending June 24, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service.1. Beach Road, James ... Read More »

A well-known Calgary indie bookstore is changing hands. Effective today, publishing veteran Simone Lee and local retailer Ben Falconer are the new co-owners of Pages Books on Kensington.The two have bought the store from Greg ... Read More »

Book sales were up in Quebec in 2006, but independent bookstores got a smaller share of the pie, according to statistics from the Observatoire de la culture et communications made public last week.The Observatoire, which ... Read More »

The Dundurn Group has grown again. On June 15, the Toronto-based publisher acquired the last two remaining imprints of Dave Godfrey’s Beach Holme Publishing. Kirk Howard, Dundurn's president and publisher, signed the deal with Godfrey, ... Read More »