At its annual general meeting on Tuesday morning, Indigo is expected to mark another profitable fiscal year by announcing plans to grow even larger. Another growth area for the country’s largest bookseller is in the ... Read More »

Only a month after wooing away HarperCollins Canada marketing director Felicia Quon, Simon & Schuster Canada president Kevin Hanson has enticed another of his former HarperCollins colleagues – vice-president of sales David Millar – to ... Read More »

The Globe and Mail is planning to revamp its bestseller lists, and is urging independent booksellers to submit their sales data.While the Globe currently uses data from only a few dozen booksellers to compile theirglobe-seeks-more-input-for-bestseller-lists/> ... Read More »

The death of beloved Calgary bookseller Catherine McKay has resulted in the establishment of a scholarship fund that will help students attend Simon Fraser University’s Masters of Publishing program. McKay, the owner of Pages Books ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart has announced plans to merge its design and production department with that of Random House of Canada – a move that has resulted in the layoff of longtime M&S art director Kong ... Read More »

Multimedia non-profit company Caribbean Tales has added another component to their business with their newly announced Literature Alive Writing Contest.Inspired by the company’s Literature Alive documentary series, which airs on Bravo and documents the lives ... Read More »

The newest additions to BookShorts executive producer Judith Keenan’s filmic family made their Canadian debut on the trade show floor at BookExpo Canada Monday, and a new broadcast series, BookShorts Moving Stories, was announced.“Our audience ... Read More »

Monday afternoon’s meeting of top-level industry players on the future of BookExpo Canada resulted in a decision to strike a task force that is expected to report back with recommendations by the end of July.The ... Read More »