Rent hikes may force retailer Nicholas Hoare to close two out of three of his stores, but the veteran bookseller says his business will forge ahead as a leaner operation centered on its Toronto store ... Read More »
After 32 years in business, discount bookseller Book Warehouse is winding down its four Vancouver-area locations. Company CEO Sharman King tells Q&Q the decision to close was more circumstantial than financial. The leases at all ... Read More »
March 15, 2012
As part of its fifth anniversary celebration, the International Visitors Programme, which takes place during Toronto’s International Festival of Authors (Oct. 18-28), is announcing its first Canadian editorial fellowship. The goal is to give a ... Read More »
March 15, 2012
It’s been a significant week for the International Criminal Court in The Hague: on Wednesday, a decade after its founding, the court passed down its first verdict. To Erna Paris, author of The Sun Climbs Slow: The ... Read More »
March 15, 2012
Publishers have long offered traditional mail order as a way of selling their wares directly to customers. With the decline of bricks-and-mortar retail, however, direct sales are becoming increasingly important for getting books to readers, ... Read More »
March 14, 2012
Rocky Mountain Books publisher Don Gorman has secured world rights to Wade Davis’s follow-up to Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest. The untitled volume will focus on the journals ... Read More »
March 14, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology
WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival has added two full-time staff members. Sandra Paire has been hired as book rapport/festival des mots manager, overseeing the festival’s French-language and educational programs. Terry Cho joins as resource development ... Read More »
March 13, 2012
Last week, Penguin Canada released activist Judy Rebick’s ebook Occupy This!, which places the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests in historical context. Priced at $3.99, the ebook is available exclusively through e-retailers and Penguin’s website. ... Read More »
March 12, 2012
More than 230 publishing industry professionals gathered at the MaRS Centre in downtown Toronto last Thursday for BookNet Canada’s annual Technology Forum. This year’s theme, “Digging Deeper into Digital,” encouraged publishers to take inventory of ... Read More »
March 12, 2012
A pioneer of independent Canadian publishing has died. Harald Bohne, a past president of both the Canadian Booksellers Association and the Association of Canadian Publishers, died on Feb. 29 at the age of 82. Bohne, ... Read More »
March 12, 2012
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