Robert Mackwood, director of Vancouver-based Seventh Avenue Literary Agency, is now its new owner and sole primary agent. With an eye on succession planning and the encouragement of a board of directors to refocus his ... Read More »

A school in the small Inuit community of Hopedale on the northern coast of Labrador fell victim to arson last September, but a generous donation from the Canadian Children's Book Centre is helping to rebuild ... Read More »

Federal grants for authors and publishers hoping to travel abroad for international tours or events may be cut by as much as one-third if a Foreign Affairs Canada program is allowed to lapse at the ... Read More »

Margaret Eaton has been hired to succeed John Pelletier as executive director of the Association for Canadian Publishers. She comes to the job after five years at the Canadian Magazine Publishers Association, most recently as ... Read More »

Indigo’s online sales, growing in part thanks to the addition of iPods, the enormously popular personal entertainment devices, helped give the bookseller a strong holiday season.In the quarter ending Jan. 1, 2005, online revenues rose ... Read More »

A six-member jury of representatives from Ontario’s First Nation public libraries have picked SkySisters, Nishinawbe Ojibwa Jan Bourdeau Waboose’s story of two contemporary First Nation sisters watching the northern lights, as the featured title forskysisters-chosen-for-first-nation-communities-read-program/> ... Read More »

Ending its eight-year partnership with its London-based subagent AP Watt, Westwood Creative Artists will now be selling rights directly to U.K. publishers – and they think that direct contact will lead to increased business.The change, ... Read More »