New Statistics Canada data paints a picture of a robust Canadian publishing industry at the height of the superstore expansion. The biannual report, released yesterday, shows revenues of publishers operating in Canada grew a healthy ... Read More »

Federal regulators are quietly reviewing Amazon.com’s bid to set up a Canadian operation, but won’t say when a decision will be released. In June, the company enlisted former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna, now a ... Read More »

A publisher and a science fiction bookstore owner in Toronto are reprinting forgotten Canadian science fiction classics in trade editions.Salman Nensi, managing director of Omikron Group, says he’s publishing two titles for fall under a ... Read More »

A Pearson PTR employee says the company is doing “swimmingly” after a sudden storm last week damaged part of the roof and toppled an air conditioning unit, causing water to flood about 30 cubicles and ... Read More »

It seems honesty may be the best Internet policy. As of 3 p.m. yesterday 41,000 readers had downloaded the first two chapters of Stephen King’s The Plant from his web site – mere hours after ... Read More »

Jane Somerville has filed a proposal to restructure Somerville House Books and pay back a portion of the company’s $3.1-million debt, but creditors may have to wait another two weeks to see the document. Daniel ... Read More »

Not many publishers would encourage an author under contract to pursue a deal with a higher profile house. But Gutter Press publisher Sam Hiyate says he had no qualms about asking Toronto author Sheila Heti ... Read More »

As Canadian publishers step gingerly into the world of e-publishing, a new review publication is gearing up to focus on e-books. The publishers of January, an online site for book reviews, features, and interviews, are ... Read More »

Not many Canadian publishers can boast of their American branch plant making inroads in the U.S. But Quicklaw, a Kingston, Ontario-based legal publisher and online database service, announced last week that it has begun to ... Read More »