Rolf Maurer, publisher of New Star Books, has no idea why someone threw a Molotov cocktail into the company’s East Vancouver office early Wednesday morning. “When I heard about the attack, the first thing I ... Read More »

BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2012, “Digging Deeper into Digital,” kicks off Wednesday afternoon. In a Thursday session entitled “The Challenge of Ebook Discoverability in a Print World,” Bloomsbury Publishing’s Evan Schnittman, managing director for group ... Read More »

BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2012, “Digging Deeper into Digital,” kicks off Wednesday afternoon. In a session on Thursday entitled “Integrating Metadata into the Publishing Process,” Laura Dawson, content chief at Firebrand Technologies, will talk about ... Read More »

There was a telling moment during Andrew Westoll’s emotional acceptance speech after winning the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction for his book, The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A Canadian Story of Resilience and ... Read More »

On Monday, D&M Publishers announced several executive-level staff changes intended to usher in a new leadership team, a new acquisitions process, and new international opportunities. Notable among the staff changes is the announcement that D&M ... Read More »

Random House of Canada has announced that, effective March 1, the company has adopted the agency-pricing model for ebooks, in theory paving the way for its titles to be sold through Apple’s iBookstore. In a ... Read More »