Luis Alberto Matta, a Colombian writer and journalist, is the first exiled writer to benefit from a new fellowship created by PEN Canada and the City of Toronto. The program will support writers who have ... Read More »

McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s net sales for 2006 increased by 5.6% to $90.3-million compared with $86.5-million in 2005. The company’s net income grew from $5.8-million to $7-million.Growth came mainly in the school division, which increased sales by ... Read More »

Future shipments of Paul William Roberts’ award-nominated book A War Against Truth will likely carry a special insert, following revelations that parts of the book were lifted from an American newspaper without attribution.“We’re working out ... Read More »

HarperCollins Canada is testing an unusual marketing strategy for Vikram Chandra’s new novel Sacred Games – online booksellers can now offer customers a limited-edition soundtrack CD that includes tracks from the Indian master sitar player ... Read More »

Down an icy, sloped driveway on Gottingen Street in north-end Halifax you’ll find the entrance to Back Alley Books, the small and specialized used bookstore recently opened in the basement apartment of Brian Purdy, son ... Read More »

Indigo Books and Music’s third quarter, which included the Christmas season, was a good one, according to financial results announced this week. The mega-retailer reported that its profits were up 3% to $41-million for the ... Read More »

After 10 years in which poems have been featured in buses and commuter trains in cities from Vancouver to St. John’s, many “poetry in transit” initiatives appear stalled.Last year, the Canada Council for the Arts ... Read More »

Bill Harnum, senior vice-president of scholarly publishing at University of Toronto Press, will retire this June after 22 years with the publisher. Harnum says he’s contributed all that he can to the position, so following ... Read More »