After about five months of searching, The Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival has officially named media veteran Hal Wake as the successor to departing artistic director Alma Lee.Jane Davidson, the festival’s general manager, told ... Read More »

Only a year after leaving a longtime position at H.B. Fenn and Company to move to Simon & Schuster Canada, Rob Howard has left the company.Howard resigned as S&S’s vice-president of sales in March. President ... Read More »

After 25 years in business, the Kamloops, B.C., bookstore Merlin Books is closing its doors. Owners Nathalie Jones and David Low, a husband and wife team, have been trying to sell the store for the ... Read More »

The Reading Well, a small independent bookstore in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, is for sale. Owner Louise Vergnano is looking to move on and is willing to sell the store for the right price: specifically, ... Read More »

Lingo Media, the Toronto-based publisher of English-language learning programs for China, has recently opened a new office in Beijing as part of its China expansion plan. The staff of five, headed by vice-president Jessica Zhang ... Read More »