Hugh Brewster, who was editorial director at Madison Press for 20 years and left when the company changed hands in 2004, is back in the publishing game, this time as head of his own Whitfield ... Read More »

There is at least one bookstore on the planet where a little-known Canadian author is outselling the juggernaut that is the seventh Harry Potter book in preorders. The store is the independent Back Pages Books ... Read More »

Although the U.S.-based Bookspan, which owns and operates about 40 direct-mail book clubs in the U.S. and Canada, is laying off 280 employees and closing some book clubs, there are no job losses in Canada ... Read More »

To mark the official start of summer, this week’s list covers the top-selling travel titles for the two weeks ending May 20, as tracked by BookNet Canada’s BNC SalesData service. It’s a battle of the ... Read More »

The Literary Press Group is about to launch its latest marketing campaign, a monthlong May promotion devised to bring readers to a genre that has traditionally been a particularly hard sell. The campaign will run ... Read More »

New Society Press, a small B.C. publisher, has released many titles on environmental themes – but it also walks its talk. In 2001, New Society was one of Canada’s first publishers to switch to 100% ... Read More »

Back in 1972, when Kirk Howard was 28 years old, he was teaching English literature and Canadian studies at Lambton Community College in Sarnia, Ontario. He was also a big Canadian history buff, and while ... Read More »

In the fall of 2005, Robbie MacGregor left his job of two years at a Halifax publisher. “While working at that publishing house,” says MacGregor, “I was still under the impression that there was a ... Read More »

Ezra Pound was right when he defined literature as “news that stays news,” but getting this message to the average reader, overwhelmed by the acres of titles at their local bookstore, is another matter altogether. ... Read More »