Strong growth in its superstore division helped Chapters post a 66% rise in earnings in fiscal 1998, despite lower results in its traditional store base. For fiscal year ending Mar. 28, 1998, the chain reported ... Read More »

An 11th-hour deal arranged with McGill-Queen’s University Press at the end of April has given Carleton University Press, which was in danger of shutting down due to budget deficits, a new lease on life – ... Read More »

Stoddart Publishing’s legal battle with representatives of the Glenn Gould estate has finally reached an end: an Ontario Court of Appeal judge ruled in May that photojournalist Jock Carroll didn’t violate Gould’s right to control ... Read More »

Addison Wesley Longman has followed the lead of its U.S. counterpart and announced a new discount structure that eliminates reverse discounts. As of June 15, the company will adopt a category-driven discount structure that extends ... Read More »

Stoddart Kids has undergone a shakeup: Leona Trainer, previously president of Stoddart Kids, has left the company. Trainer, who joined Stoddart Kids two-and-a-half years ago, wouldn’t comment on her departure, apart from saying that it ... Read More »

One of the first exercises in the “Building a Winning Retail Strategy” bookseller training workbook, written by retail consultants John Torella and John C. Williams of the J.C. Williams Group in Toronto, is to complete ... Read More »