Despite the pronounced lack of a dominant bestseller driving customers to bookstores, a Q&Q Omni survey of some of the country’s top independent booksellers reveals that sales in the month of December generally increased compared ... Read More »

Taking a promotional page from online retailers like Indigo and Amazon, HarperCollins Canada is posting reader reviews on its website in an effort to generate more buzz for upcoming titles.The program, called First Look, launched ... Read More »

Enhancements to the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit announced last May as part of the provincial budget have recently passed into law. The most significant of these should increase the number of children’s books eligible ... Read More »

After spending a full three years in hardcover, Dan Brown’s runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code will finally be making its North American paperback debut. Doubleday Canada and Anchor U.S. – both of which areda-vinci-paperback/> ... Read More »

After spending the last six years in a Montreal hospital receiving treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, Canadian poet Irving Layton died Wednesday at the age of 93. “Irving is among the four or so greatest poets ... Read More »

Sharpen your pencils. The Canadian, English, and Australian publishers of Yann Martel’s blockbuster novel Life of Pi have launched a contest, in conjunction with daily newspapers in the three countries, to find an illustrator for ... Read More »

Raincoast Books has hired Naomi Wittes Reichstein as editor. Starting in the publisher’s Vancouver office on Jan. 17, she will be “managing acquisitions and editorial development for the company’s non-fiction publishing program."Reichstein is new to ... Read More »

Cook, a Toronto editor and collector of literary and celebrity encounters, has collected a number of anecdotes about Irving Layton that have appeared in books and newspaper articles.Al Purdy, poet ...on to Montreal where I ... Read More »