People for Education, the Ontario Library Association (OLA), the Ontario School Library Association (OSLA), and Queen’s University have jointly launched a research initiative that will examine the relationships between school libraries and literacy scores from ... Read More »

Take a Joy Read, the Literary Press Group’s ambitious marketing campaign, is “coming to an end at the end of December,” says LPG vice-chair and Coach House Books editor Alana Wilcox.The promotion, which began in ... Read More »

The 18th Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival wrapped another successful year on Sunday, despite significant challenges from the recent CBC lockout and a provincial teachers’ strike. B.C. public school teachers were out of the ... Read More »

WHEN PUBLISHERS ATTACK: After news broke in Frankfurt last week that five major U.S. publishers had filed a lawsuit against Google and its controversial Google Print for Libraries program, the reverberations swept through the book ... Read More »

As the 2005 Frankfurt Book Fair wound down last Saturday, it seemed clearer than ever that the fair is no longer about making big, heart-palpitating deals. Though most of the Canadian contingent reported a busy ... Read More »

Two senior staffers at Key Porter Books have resigned this month. Former marketing director Lyn Cadence has already left, while art director Ingrid Paulson plans to leave later this month.Paulson says her impending split from ... Read More »

Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination by Lance Berelowitz was named the winner of the 2005 City of Vancouver Book Award Wednesday night at the opening reception of the Vancouver International Writers' and Readers' ... Read More »

The Frankfurt Book Fair had barely begun last Wednesday when buzz began circulating about Globe and Mail reporter Stephanie Nolen’s upcoming 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa. The book, which is being published in Canada28-is-one-of-the-big-titles-in-frankfurt/> ... Read More »