Pegasus announced another library-sector alliance last week at the Canadian Lilbrary Association Conference in Edmonton. The Chapters subsidiary will partner with Duncan Systems Specialists, a provider of cataloguing and library database products , to provide ... Read More »

Chapters’ CHEX trade shows are coming together in a hurry – and leaving some publishers scrambling to attend. The chain sent a registration package to publishers last week detailing the terms for participation in the ... Read More »

Random House of Canada offered booksellers a rare opportunity to provide input on the company’s fall lists at a simulated sales conference held Tuesday in Toronto. About 40 independent retailers attended the session, contributing their ... Read More »

Ellen Seligman, McClelland & Stewart’s editorial director of fiction, has been promoted to fiction publisher, and although the details of her new job description still have to be worked out, she says she will have ... Read More »

Details of the upcoming merger of the Canadian operations of Addison Wesley Longman and Prentice Hall are still unavailable because the the deal between the parent companies hasn’t yet closed. Pearson PLC, U.K. owner of ... Read More »

After almost 80 years in print, Canadian Author magazine may be discontinued unless its publisher, the Canadian Authors Association, can find a new owner. The association has suspended publication of the quarterly magazine because subscriptions ... Read More »

Canadian Manda has renewed its marketing relationship with U.S. wholesaler Ingram in a standard rollover of the business arrangement announced just over a year ago. Some booksellers and publishers had speculated that Canada’s agency distribution ... Read More »