Publishing colleagues are remembering Jane Jacobs, the U.S-born and -educated writer and activist who moved to Toronto in the late 1960s, who died early Tuesday in her home. She was 89.Legendary U.S. editor Jason Epstein, ... Read More »

The University of Toronto Libraries have struck a deal with Niagara Falls’s Coutts Library Services for a new online interface that promises to deliver increased and improved Internet access to the school’s materials, including a ... Read More »

Brick Books, a press dedicated exclusively to publishing poetry, has launched a subscription service through which readers can purchase in advance and at a discount the house’s entire 2006 list, which the publisher will then ... Read More »

It takes commitment to keep playing when the stakes are low and tumbling lower all the time. In Canadian literature, that game is poetry. It has few readers, sluggish sales, and only the rare star ... Read More »

Jane Urquhart might be a star on the Canadian fiction scene, but it’s a different story in the U.S. While Urquhart’s first three novels have garnered decent reviews there, she’s never attained the same recognition ... Read More »

As it became apparent, in the final days of the recent federal election campaign, that a change in power was inevitable, the heads of publishing industry associations began to face the fact that, after more ... Read More »

After an unlikely decade-long run under the guidance of its attention-magnet founder and publisher, Sam Hiyate, Gutter Press finally died an uncharacteristically quiet death at the end of 2005.Beset, in the end, by financial troubles, ... Read More »