Life has been a circular journey, said Randy Fred as he accepted the sixth annual Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award on a cool April night in Vancouver. Looking dapper in a grey suit, Fred took ... Read More »

April is poetry month, but the occasion’s most high-profile celebration of Canadian poets took place not in Toronto or Ottawa but in New York City. On one of Manhattan’s first balmy spring evenings, a crowd ... Read More »

Harry’s back this summer, and most Canadian booksellers say their customers are still rabid and ready to buy the 608-page new tome. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth volume in the J.K. Rowling ... Read More »

It’s been a year now since Indigo implemented the SAP inventory management system, and according to most publishers the conversion was a relatively smooth one. Early kinks in the chain’s revamped ordering system have been ... Read More »

In recent years, mass-market paperback sales have been declining at a precipitous rate, to the point where traditional booksellers have pretty much banished them from display shelves in favour of hardcovers and trade paperbacks. The ... Read More »

When he visited Toronto in late January, literary scout Markus Hoffman had only been covering Canada for a few months. He works for the agency Maria B. Campbell Associates in New York, and on his ... Read More »