In an effort to improve strained relations between management and staff at Toronto’s Metro Reference Library, the library’s biennial in-house art exhibition this year showcased the talents of library employees. Tony Golea, the co-ordinator of ... Read More »

Hot Type, a new weekly half-hour television show on books and other print-related matters, is scheduled to go to air as part of the CBC Newsworld line-up in January 1998.Hosted by Shift magazine editor-in-chief Evan ... Read More »

B.C. Transit and the Association of Book Publishers of B.C. have joined forces to make the ride for passengers of the province’s buses and sky trains a little more enjoyable. Until July 1998, B.C. Transit ... Read More »

Lester Publishing will make way this spring for Turner Books, the new name owner Garth Turner will give to the publishing enterprise he purchased from Key Porter Books in August.Although he was initially uncertain about ... Read More »

When a clerk at Greenwoods Books in Edmonton ran a recent search in the store’s computer system for the title Neurotic Erotica, by local writer Timothy J. Anderson, he found a curt notation: “Sept. 10th: ... Read More »

Publishers who’ve relied on the International Partnership Program (IPP) to help fund joint ventures in developing countries will soon have to find alternate sources of funding – the program, launched last year by the Association ... Read More »

Whitecap Books is focusing its Canadian publishing program on non-fiction and children’s titles geared to the international marketplace, and has created a new division that will produce calendars, stationery, and other book-related products.The company has ... Read More »

Electronics superstore retailer Future Shop and a handful of computer book publishers have found themselves at loggerheads following the chain’s decision to hire a publisher’s sales rep to help manage its book operations.In a memo ... Read More »

After more than 20 years in the publishing industry, Gordon Bain – the Random House executive who established the company’s indigenous publishing program – has retired. The company has not announced a replacement.Bain, who was ... Read More »