Nearly 15,000 libraries across Canada will soon receive a free CD-ROM version of the University of Toronto’s classic reference work The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Public and secondary school libraries, as well as college and ... Read More »

Chapters shareholders will have to decide whether to take up Trilogy’s new offer of $15 a share without any further information about Indigo’s financial health, the Ontario Securities Commission has ruled.In a decision issued late ... Read More »

Retailers will have to give up one discount point when McClelland & Stewart’s fulfillment operations move from Canbook to Random House in March, but M&S is boosting co-op allowances and other incentives in line with ... Read More »

It hasn’t received much notice in Canada, but ECW Press’s recent photography collection about blues performers is attracting some international admiration. The Memphis, Tennessee-based Blues Foundation has recognized photographer Raeburn Flerlage and his book, Chicago ... Read More »

Many independent booksellers did well this fall with McClelland & Stewart’s book tie-in to the CBC’s successful Canada: A People’s History series – but some are miffed that video and DVD versions of the documentary ... Read More »

Is anyone else wondering where the truth lies behind all the accusations and counter-accusations flying between Trilogy and Chapters?The barrage of press releases issuing from the two companies stepped up a notch last week, as ... Read More »

When Chapters and the Globe and Mail partnered to launch a web site in 1998, the venture seemed to typify a trend toward online merging of editorial content and retailing capabilities. But with the demise ... Read More »

Five of Somerville House’s major creditors are planning to conduct a thorough audit of the children’s publisher over the next two weeks, and will meet in mid-January to decide whether to force the company into ... Read More »