Jane Somerville’s indebted publishing house escaped bankruptcy for the second time in its roller coaster 17-year history as the company’s creditors yesterday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a proposal to keep the company running. A ... Read More »

Like Barnes & Noble south of the border, Chapters.ca is now upping the ante on order fulfilment by promising same-day delivery to online customers in Toronto. In July, Chapters.ca teamed with Empori.com to offer a ... Read More »

The Association of Canadian Publishers’ policy director has a new home base. ACP veteran Roy MacSkimming, who’s worked in his current position for 10 years, relocated from Ottawa to Vancouver this week. The ACP plans ... Read More »

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe bookstores in Toronto may carry A Promise Is a Promise by Robert Munsch, but the stores certainly aren’t keeping theirs. In another incidence of copyright violation on the ... Read More »

Raincoast Books has reached an agreement with Indigo Books and Music to stop selling U.S. editions of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In a late-breaking agreement yesterday, publisher Kevin Williams says Indigo agreed ... Read More »

The Canadian Booksellers Association says it’s now courting more than one suitor. One of the parties interested in buying the association’s trade show is Quill & Quire’s parent company, Key Media, which submitted a proposal ... Read More »

THE CRYING GAME • The climax of a recent 90-minute hostage drama at Chapters’ Robson Street store in Vancouver resulted in police shooting rubber bullets at a man dressed in women’s clothing. According to police, ... Read More »

A new joint publishing project announced by Chapters and McClelland & Stewart in November offers previously unpublished novelists a shot at publication. The Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize comes with a $5,000 advance against royalties from M&S, ... Read More »

Bibliophiles now have two more book shows to watch: BookTV, originally proposed as a Bravo production but now a joint CityTV/CBC project, and Vision’s Off the Pages with Lesley Choyce.The air date and time slotbooktv-to-launch-this-year/> ... Read More »