Indigo’s annual general meeting is the Canadian book industry equivalent of a throne speech or state of the union address. CEO Heather Reisman rises before assembled shareholders and reporters and says, this year at least, ... Read More »

Despite recent talk about non-fiction eclipsing literary fiction at foreign rights fairs, most Canadian agents are heading to next week's Frankfurt Book Fair with fairly even mixes of both. Beverley Slopen, for instance, is going ... Read More »

For some publishers, the pressures of the fall publishing season have been exacerbated by delays at a number of large Canadian printers.Transcontinental, Webcom, and Friesens have all experienced some delays in printing books. Some have ... Read More »

The University of Toronto Bookstore is reworking a couple of its services. Changes are in store for both the store’s in-house journal of book reviews and its on-campus reading series – and these changes include ... Read More »

The media giant Quebecor, which already owned five publishing houses in Quebec, got considerably bigger Wednesday when it announced that it is buying Sogides, a company that owns six publishing houses and is the biggest ... Read More »