Growing interest in the mystery genre has prompted Canadian enthusiasts to organize a conference that’s expected to draw participants from across the country, as well as the eastern United States. The first annual Bloody Words ... Read More »

A new two-week publishing workshop at Toronto’s Humber College will be offered this summer, joining a growing roster of educational offerings to the industry. The Humber Book Publishing Workshop, a venture of the nine-year-old Humber ... Read More »

The idea was simply to protect personal privacy in the age of electronic transmission of data, but Bill C-54, now making its way through Parliament, may have unexpected and far-reaching effects on the kinds of ... Read More »

Prentice Hall Canada could soon see the departure of two of its highest-profile authors. Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead, co-authors of the Canadian Internet Handbook series, say they’re considering moving elsewhere now that the publisher ... Read More »

Universities and colleges looking to lease their campus bookstore operations will have fewer bidders to choose from in the future. Chapters has purchased a controlling interest in the Canadian division of Barnes & Noble College ... Read More »

It was a case of too many cooks in the retail kitchen. When Chapters unveiled its first superstore, the company based its management structure on Barnes & Noble’s model, following the advice of the ex-B&N ... Read More »

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced a two-year grant program geared to emerging writers and artists who have not received council funding before. Artists in single or combined disciplines (including writing, theatre, dance, ... Read More »

The judges of the inaugural $50,000 Roloff Beny Photography Book Award were looking for work that captured the “soul and spirit” of its subjects, and they found it in Larry Towell’s haunting shots of a ... Read More »

The 15th annual B.C. Book Prizes gala was a triumphant evening for novelist and creative writing teacher Jack Hodgins, who picked up the Ethel Wilson Fiction Award for Broken Ground. Hodgins accepted the award to ... Read More »