Since adopting the SAP inventory management system in 2004, Indigo has been gradually attempting to streamline the whole supply chain process, but its efforts have occasionally caused publishers and distributors some logistical worries. The most ... Read More »

Israeli author and photographer Danielle Schaub is in Toronto next week for the launch of her first Canadian book, Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections. Schaub is a professor of Canadian Literature at Oranim, the ... Read More »

Dionne Brand has won the 2006 Toronto Book Awards prize for her novel What We All Long For, published by Knopf Canada. The book was chosen by five judges from more than 75 entries. Brand ... Read More »

After three years spent marketing their self-published children’s series Jasper’s Great Canadian Adventure in and around the Calgary area, Doug and Shannon Chapman decided to try to broaden their books’ readership by signing on for ... Read More »

Random House Canada vice-president and publisher Anne Collins has finalized a deal with Lt. General Roméo Dallaire for world rights to a new work of non-fiction, his first since the Governor General’s Award-winning Shake Hands ... Read More »

One of the biggest suppliers of French-language educational books in Canada has been bought by media giant Transcontinental. The sale of Montreal-based Chenelière Éducation, a major player on the French first-language scene and a strong ... Read More »

Penguin Canada will not be following the example of its American cousin's brash street marketing campaign to encourage consumers to buy books directly from its website. Last week in Manhattan, Penguin was aggressively promoting a ... Read More »

Over the past year or so, some of the country’s larger publishers have been experimenting with the idea of “book trailers” – flashy advertising spots that adopt the form of big Hollywood movie trailers. Now, ... Read More »