The B.C. city of Surrey has suffered a major loss with the death of bookseller Sharon Beech and the imminent closing of her store, Copper Beech Books.“She was the store,” says Copper Beech manager Frances ... Read More »

Indigo’s losses are up and its revenues are down in the second quarter of its fiscal year – and, once again, the chain says the SAP implementation is among the factors. The country’s largest book ... Read More »

More than a year after the death of Carol Shields, Vintage Canada has announced plans for a new volume in a popular anthology series that Shields helped launch.Marjorie Anderson, who along with Shields co-edited Droppeddropped-threads/> ... Read More »

That sense of anticipation filling the air can mean only one thing – the Giller Prize will be handed out in just a couple of days.Unlike Brits hoping to predict the Man Booker Prize winner, ... Read More »

One common approach to marketing computer books has been to package them into a neat series, with an expectation that once someone purchases one book and likes it, they will follow with others in the ... Read More »

It’s conventional publishing wisdom that the readership for computer books has long since outgrown manuals aimed at tech neophytes. But a self-published Halifax author has challenged that assumption with a successful how-to book for older, ... Read More »

It’s been a few years since the dot-com bubble burst, but the after-effects are still being felt by everyone involved in the industry. Fewer related jobs are available, fewer computer courses are being offered by ... Read More »

In August, after entertaining offers from several candidates, Chapters/Indigo quietly sold the management contracts for its four college bookstores to chief competitor Follett of Canada, effectively removing itself from the campus bookselling market altogether. The ... Read More »