Dundurn Press has scored one of the biggest coups in its 25-year history: it’s been awarded Canadian English-language rights to the authorized biography of megastar songstress Céline Dion.Written by Quebec author Georges-Hébert Germain and translated ... Read More »

It won’t beat Chapters to the punch, but the Canadian Booksellers Association is hoping its new online bookselling venture will take at least a small bite out of the chain’s market dominance in the lead-up ... Read More »

A British high court judge has ruled in favour of McClelland & Stewart’s lawsuit against Reed International Books, although it may be another six months before M&S sees any money as a result of the ... Read More »

Organizers of the 1998 International Festival of Authors are calling it good corporate citizenship, but Indigo Books, Music & Cafe, preparing for a rash of store openings this fall, makes no bones about what it’s ... Read More »

Speculation about who will take over the president’s position at a combined Random House-Doubleday in Canada intensified in mid-August, but there was no word from Bertelsmann’s New York offices about the nature or timing of ... Read More »

E-books appear to be making inroads in the Canadian library market, even though the hardware required to read some of them isn’t widely available yet. Windsor Public Library has become the first system in Ontario ... Read More »

Alistair MacLeod received the literary distinction critics and booksellers have been long saying he deserves by taking home a Trillium Award last night. MacLeod’s No Great Mischief won the $12,000 English-language prize. AndréeChristensen and Jacques ... Read More »