Though it has been around for only six years, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction has managed to carve out a solid place for itself in the Canadian publishing industry. When it debuted in ... Read More »

In their battle against Amazon.ca and Indigo, Canadian independent bookstores have a new weapon at their disposal: a group website. Last year, TBM BookManager, the Kelowna, B.C.-based inventory-management software company, quietly began developing a feature ... Read More »

My girlfriend and I were about to fly to Rome when I got the news. The cab to the airport had been called, and I was just about to shut the laptop when an e-mail ... Read More »

In what may be one of the province’s best-kept literary secrets, Alberta’s 309 libraries received a spring gift last month with the announcement of a one-time, $20-million infusion of funds from the provincial government.The conditions ... Read More »

Earlier today, the fifth annual CBC Canada Reads debate came to a not altogether shocking conclusion with Miriam Toews’s already much-ballyhooed A Complicated Kindness laying waste to the competition. The battle came down to Toews’skindness-killed-em/> ... Read More »

Staffed by a crew of book-publishing rookies, a new company by the name of Kunati hopes to release six books of genre fiction by national and international authors by early next year. Spearheaded by ad ... Read More »

Valerie Hussey, publisher and CEO of Kids Can Press, has announced two new hires in the company’s marketing department: Robin Tameshtit, former director of marketing at Nelvana, has been named vice-president of marketing, and Debbie ... Read More »

After all the photos had been taken and the hands of the jurors and sponsors had been shaken, Matthew J. Bellamy, author of Profiting the Crown: Canada’s Polymer Corporation, 1942 – 1990 and surprise winner ... Read More »