A decade ago, the university and college textbook market was a straightforward one. Each semester, students faithfully trudged over to their campus bookstore, list of required books in hand, and handed over hundreds of dollars. ... Read More »

A Canadian university is preparing to launch a new in-house press that will focus on books about a highly specialized field: publishing. Simon Fraser University’s Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing has created its own ... Read More »

With a resounding slam, a Canadian educational publisher has closed the door on the idea of selling advertising space in its textbooks. McGraw-Hill Ryerson says its attempt to sell ads, which kicked off earlier this ... Read More »

Canada regained its sole university press devoted to the visual arts with the recent revival of the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, now simply called NSCAD Press, after a hiatus ... Read More »

An attempted embargo sale of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson’s forthcoming pseudo-confessional memoir, was abandoned this week as details about the book, slated for a Nov. 30 pub date under the HarperCollins U.S. imprint ... Read More »

In a surprise bit of restructuring at the end of October, Scholastic Canada shuffled the responsibilities of its national account managers, and in the process also laid off sales rep Sheldon Cohen who had represented ... Read More »

In a round of industry musical chairs, Penguin Canada marketing manager Colleen Clarke has opted to leave the company for a position as publicity manager at Random House of Canada. Her last day at Penguin ... Read More »

Raincoast Books announced this week that Kevin Williams, longtime executive vice-president for Raincoast and president of Publishers Group Canada, is leaving the Vancouver-based company’s executive team. Williams will maintain a connection with the company as ... Read More »