Chapters has enlisted some experienced partisan talent to further its interests on Parliament Hill. Take the recent Heritage Standing Committee hearings on the publishing industry. CEO Larry Stevenson made his latest presentation in mid-Aprilwith the ... Read More »

Several large publishers are claiming that Lichtman’s owed them significantly more money than the now-defunct book chain had previously declared in financial statements filed with the superintendent of bankruptcy. The discrepancies appear on the trustee’s ... Read More »

The two sides, it seems, are still talking. Tina Jordan, BookExpo America’s public relations manager, confirmed that officials from Reed Exhibition Companies met with representatives of the Canadian Booksellers Association in Toronto yesterday to further ... Read More »

It’s been smooth sailing in U.S. waters for Kevin Patterson, author of The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea ( Random House of Canada), who recently received a couple of impressive reviews in The ... Read More »

Book buyers, university academics, and others in the scholarly publishing community can count on at least another six years of partnership between the two institutions that make up McGill-Queen’s University Press. Senior editor – and ... Read More »

Canadian college and university students are gaining more access to materials electronically – and creators are getting compensation – through a new digital licensing service developed by the Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (Can-Copy). CanCopy’s new ... Read More »

This season’s new paperback reissue of Catherine Bush’s 1993 novel Minus Time boasts more than a revamped design and difference typeface – it features a new edit by the author herself, who refers to the ... Read More »

After pushing hard to rein in fourth-quarter losses, Chapters Online officials said last week they may have scaled back book discounts on the e-commerce site too aggressively, and expect to reintroduce more pricing incentives in ... Read More »

Filming of a new television mini-series based on two novels by Bernice Morgan could significantly boost the Newfoundland author’s profile outside her home province. Morgan’s historical novels Random Passage (Breakwater Books) andWaiting for Time (Breakwater ... Read More »