Ottawa author Brian Doyle says he didn’t go into the business of writing for money, so when he was recently selected to receive the 2005 NSK Neustadt International Prize for Children’s Literature, which carries a ... Read More »

It’s 11:00 a.m. in Toronto, and the Indigo at the corner of Bay and Bloor Streets is packed with people who have absolutely no intention of buying books. The crowd presses in around the main ... Read More »

Jeff Shannon, a former director of strategic market development at Sony Music Canada, is joining HarperCollins Canada in the newly created position of vice-president, administration and operations. He fills a vacancy left by former chief ... Read More »

Lord Black, the Rise and Fall of a Paper Empire by George Tombs, the unauthorized biography of Conrad Black that Quebec publisher Pierre Turgeon has been promising for months, is now apparently being released on ... Read More »

Lower book sales, particularly the industry-wide woes for mass-market paperback sales, are to blame for Harlequin’s lower operating profit in the second quarter, according to a release issued Wednesday by its parent company, Torstar.The Toronto-based ... Read More »

Only three and a half months after he joined the company, David Margolis's tenure as Indigo’s president and chief operating officer is over, according to an Indigo press release.The founder of Winners Merchants, the discount ... Read More »

As part of a five-year plan to increase its audience, Toronto's International Festival of Authors is working on getting its fans while they’re young. This year's effort includes free tickets for high school, college, andventi-corporate-partnership-for-ifoa/> ... Read More »