In a bid to reach computer-savvy youngsters, HarperCollins Canada has launched an unusually elaborate web site to promote Kenneth Oppel’s upcoming YA novel Airborn. The site, Airborn.ca, was officially launched yesterday – months before the ... Read More »

While McClelland & Stewart’s book on the B.C. forest fires racks up huge sales in that province, a book about another natural disaster is doing the same on the East Coast.Nimbus Publishing in Halifax released ... Read More »

A fine drink, like a fine book, takes time to produce. Which may be one of the reasons why A Different Drummer Books in Burlington, now in its 27th year of operation, is unveiling a ... Read More »

• Making good on its pledge last year to donate 50 cents from every commemorative hardcover sale of Andrew Morton’s Diana, Her True Story to The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada, Distican, the Canadian distributor ... Read More »

Whither the future of Canadian publishing? See the titles below, selected from the fall lists prepared by the 30 students in SFU’s inaugural book publishing workshop. (You aren’t, however, encouraged to steal the ideas – ... Read More »

Random House Canada hopes to donate more than 4,000 children’s books to 100 elementary schools across the country as part of a year-long campaign aimed at encouraging children to read. Conducted in partnership with the ... Read More »

Copp Clark Professional, the last remaining division of Canada’s oldest publishing company, is winding down operations. Its assets – reference and directory information titles that include the Canadian Almanac and Directory, Associations Canada, The Canadian ... Read More »

Ryerson Polytechnic University has established a new mentorship program designed to give students in its publishing program an opportunity to work with industry professionals. The recipient of the first award, which was financed through a ... Read More »

Two-time Governor General Prize winner Pierre Turgeon will appeal a Quebec Superior Court judgment that went against him doubly in March. The judgment forbids him to publish his biography of Paul-Hervé Desrosiers, the late hardware ... Read More »

Carleton University may not have to look far for a licencing partner to take over its publishing imprint, which the university has decided to stop funding as of May 1. Since the financially troubled institution ... Read More »