In a year when the international book trade is experiencing a tidal wave of consolidation, domestic publishing magnate Jack Stoddart has moved to expand his steadily growing influence over the Canadian industry through an investment/distribution ... Read More »

Advanced Book Exchange (ABE) is aiming to reach a bigger market for its virtual inventory of rare and used books – through independent bookstores. A new initiative soon to be tested at Bolen Books in ... Read More »

After a hiatus of 20 years, McMaster University Press has been resurrected by the university’s bookstore. Titles Bookstore manager Bob Crawford had been toying with the idea of relaunching the operation when he was approached ... Read More »

The University of Alberta Press has begun work on an ambitious series of 20 history books that will form the basis for an integrated three-volume history of the province. The impetus for the Alberta Reflections ... Read More »

University students seeking to avoid long lineups now have the option to shop in cyberspace – and put a few bucks back into their pockets.In early August, Canada’s first Internet textbook store, TextExpress (www.textexpress.com), opened ... Read More »

As the National Association of College Stores in the U.S. waits to see if its lawsuit against three major publishers regarding dual discounting practices will go to trial, a handful of publishers have responded to ... Read More »

The work generally considered to be the most important Ukrainian history written to date is becoming available to English speakers through the efforts of a team of international scholars co-ordinated by the Canadian Institute of ... Read More »

As acquisitions editor for the University of Toronto Press, Virgil Duff has learned to love the arcane manuscripts that cross his desk. He loves to get them in the mail, to read them from cover ... Read More »

Judith Merril, the influential New York-born science-fiction writer and editor who founded what is now known as the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Speculation, and Fantasy at the Toronto Public Library, died on Sept. 12 ... Read More »