Children’s authors Tim Wynne-Jones and Kenneth Oppel will share billing with J.K. Rowling when she appears at Toronto’s SkyDome on Oct. 24 as part of the International Festival of Authors. Several publishing houses have lobbied ... Read More »

Is HarperCollins preparing to take over Simon & Schuster? The publishing industries in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. were awash in rumours yesterday that Jane Friedman, president and CEO of HarperCollins U.S., would soon ... Read More »

In the most high-profile test of Canada’s distribution right legislation to date, an Ontario Superior Court judge has granted Raincoast Books an interim injunction against The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe that prohibits the ... Read More »

The battle for electronic rights is heating up – two more organizations of freelance writers have launched lawsuits against high-profile database providers. But although the Periodical Writers Association of Canada says it’s watching the situation, ... Read More »

Chapters Online has a new chief technical officer, Doug Caldwell, who joins the company from Microsoft Canada and will be responsible for the technical side of Chapters Online’s operations. As part of the senior management ... Read More »

Ottawa’s Word on the Street festival has been cancelled because of lack of interest from sponsors and exhibitors. Ottawa director Lauren Walker says that despite fundraising efforts, sponsorship levels were less than half of last ... Read More »

Raincoast is taking legal action against The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe bookstores for ordering Bloomsbury editions of the Harry Potter books from a U.K. wholesaler. “Raincoast has initiated legal proceedings where we are ... Read More »

Josiane Polidori was only acting out of concern, but her recent calls to children’s publishers asking for submissions for the Governor General’s Awards inadvertently sparked speculation about the fate of the children’s literature awards – ... Read More »

Bethany Gibson, formerly an agent with Anne McDermid & Associates, has launched a new service offering manuscript assessment and editorial advice to writers without an agent or publisher of their own. The Literary Consultancy Canada, ... Read More »