Two veteran Canadian writers received prominent and favourable media attention in the U.S. last week.MacLeod’s Island: The Complete Stories was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review over the weekend, ... Read More »

The tiny Toronto firm Lingo Media barely registers on the radar among educational publishers, but the eight-person company has scored a contract that would be the envy of any multinational. On Friday, Lingo Media announced ... Read More »

A $1,000 corporate donation has allowed hundreds of books to reach Sakatchewan schoolchildren. The gift – from SaskEnergy, the province’s natural gas utility – has allowed the Moose Jaw Festival of Words to distribute 254 ... Read More »

For months Doug Pepper couldn’t tell his friends what book he was editing. But this week, with the release of IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, the secret was out. It’s the most high-profile ... Read More »

Key Porter Books’ long-distance publicity bills will be mounting this spring, as the publisher seeks U.S. exposure for its new health imprint, Sarasota Press. The line will include a mix of new titles and reprints ... Read More »

The Canadian arm of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) is marking its 20th anniversary with a traveling exhibit that highlights outstanding Canadian children’s books in English and French from the past ... Read More »

It will be some time before BookExpo Canada attains the profile of a Frankfurt or Bologna, but the show’s management is hoping a new agreement with Rightscenter.com will help attract foreign publishers’ interest via the ... Read More »

Once designed to promote film and television projects, the Ontario Film Development Corporation has changed one letter in its acronym, and will now be responsible for supplying grants to book publishing as well as other ... Read More »

Random House of Canada did a good job – maybe too good a job – keeping U.S. author Edwin Black’s explosive new book under wraps: as of yesterday only about half of the booksellers contacted ... Read More »