Twenty-one Canadian publishers exhibited at this year's London International Book Fair, and who made the biggest splash? A one-year-old daschund who didn't even attend the show.Seems that Joy – a coy little canine owned by ... Read More »

Booksellers and industry types who subscribe to PW Daily, Publishers Weekly’s e-mail news service, were confronted with some bizarre and baffling stories at the beginning of last month. But continent-wide cries of “Has the tradethey-wrote-shrill-crier/> ... Read More »

Former librarian and Toronto writer Katherine Matthews’ list of recommended biographies focuses particularly on women, given that there’s a shortage of such Canadian material.Alanis Morissette: You Oughta Know, by Paul Cantin (Stoddart, 1997): Cantin brings ... Read More »

Robert Harris, publisher, CDG BooksHarris, who arrived at CDG Books (formerly Macmillan Canada) from Prentice Hall in February, says the house typically hires freelancers for about a quarter of its roughly 40 trade non-fiction projects ... Read More »

A co-publishing partnership between two of the country’s leading independent presses has broken new ground with the April launch of Jane, a first novel by Toronto writer Judy MacDonald. Late last spring Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

One might expect The Porcupine’s Quill, a small literary publisher and printer that issues fewer than 10 titles per year, to be less affected by the Y2K bug than its larger, more complex competitors. But ... Read More »

Skim the pages of some books by Maritime authors and you’ll find exactly what you might expect: stories of quaint fishing villages, tales of cod stock depletion, and recipes for blueberry grunt. But go a ... Read More »

CanCopy, the Canadian copyright licensing agency, plans to expand its scope to include digital licensing arrangements. Until now, CanCopy has focused primarily on establishing photocopying licences. Executive director Andrew Martin announced the proposed repositioning at ... Read More »

As a politico-cultural event, the Paris Salon du livre was a resounding four-day success. Close to 200 writers showed up – 60 official, all-expenses-paid invitees and many more who paid their own way – and ... Read More »