The Canadian Book Network, Warwick Publishing’s sales and distribution business, is being mothballed, as the Toronto-based publisher will turn over Canadian distribution of its titles to Jackson, Tennessee’s Client Distribution Services and sales representation in ... Read More »

A coalition of 10 book-industry associations called Thursday for federal party leaders to include the removal of the GST on books in their campaign platforms.Spearheaded by the Canadian Booksellers Association, the coalition held a news ... Read More »

Just two years after it opened, the second Ottawa location of Leishman Books was put into bankruptcy on Dec. 1, a victim of a poor location and competition from big-box retailers, its owners say.Leishman Books ... Read More »

HarperCollins in the U.S. announced this week that it will create a digital library of its book and audio content that will be searchable by consumers on the Internet – and the publisher's Canadian division ... Read More »

Operating sporadically for close to four and a half years, Running the Goat, a book-art micro-press devoted to publishing the work of Newfoundland writers and artists, will tonight be launching Three Servings – a prose ... Read More »

John Wiley & Sons Canada has shuffled some of the executives in its professional and trade division, promoting Jennifer Smith to vice-president and publisher, effective Monday.Formerly the director of sales and marketing for Wiley, Smith ... Read More »

This past weekend, Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood saw the grand opening of a new Coles bookstore, which first opened its doors on Dec. 3. Indigo CEO Heather Reisman announced plans to open the store at the ... Read More »

After months of waiting, author Heather Robertson’s 10-year-old class action suit against The Globe and Mail and its former parent company Thomson Corporation took a key step forward earlier this week. Arguments in the lawsuit ... Read More »