• Newfoundland and Labrador: No fees charged for basic services in the province’s 96 public libraries, which form an integrated system.• Nova Scotia: No fees except for such things as overdue fines, and (in some ... Read More »

Trendspotters on the trade floor at Advance ’99 – the Christian Booksellers’ Association’s annual show – didn’t have to look hard to see that non-book items are of greater interest to Christian bookstores than their ... Read More »

Independent booksellers have praised McClelland & Stewart for its “level playing field” discount policy (45% across the board), but the company recently aroused the ire of some independents by remaindering a number of titles directly ... Read More »

ECW Press has decided not to appeal a recent court decision involving a Shania Twain biography. In December 1998 Justice Barbara Reed awarded B.C. writer Barbara Hager damages of $12,405 (plus court costs) after finding ... Read More »

Torstar’s decision to sell its money-losing children’s book club business is not a signal that the media giant is preparing to pull the plug on the remainder of its supplementary education division, hailed only two ... Read More »

So you're looking for a copy of House of Hate, the 1970 novel by Newfoundland author Percy Janes, who died in February. A quick search on the Advanced Book Exchange (ABE) turnes up six copies ... Read More »

Officials with Prentice Hall Canada have confirmed that the company’s distribution centre in Cambridge, Ontario, will be relocated in May to Newmarket, where it will be consolidated with Addison-Wesley’s expanded warehouse operation there. The decision ... Read More »

Dorling Kindersley, the highly successful U.K. publisher of visual reference books, has hired former Reader’s Digest publishing director Lorraine Taylor to research the viability of setting up an office in Canada.Taylor, who worked for Reader’s ... Read More »

The award presentation was not a surprise – she knew she was going to win – but Anita Rau Badami still seemed flabbergasted Wednesday night as she accepted this year’s Marian Engel Award. “I am ... Read More »

CBC’s annual Massey Lecture Series has produced another hit for House of Anansi, which since November has sold 28,000 copies of Jean Vanier’s Becoming Human. The book’s somewhat surprising success mirrors that of John Ralston ... Read More »