Ottawa-based Funbag Animation Studios has purchased television rights to the popular preschool book series, The Mole Sisters, published by Annick Press. Janine Cheeseman, principal agent of Aurora Artists, the Toronto company that brokered the deal, ... Read More »

After inheriting a company with a plummeting share price and 90,000 unfilled orders, Peter Cooper admits that Chapters Online is a mess. But the e-tailer’s president insists the company will break even before it runs ... Read More »

The Department of Canadian Heritage is providing emergency assistance to publishers for the second time in four months as the fallout from unprecedented spring returns continues to mount.Inside Report has learned that 22 publishers, mostly ... Read More »

After nearly nine years at the University of Toronto Bookstore, Maylin Scott has made the jump from bookselling to publishing. On Mar. 5, Scott started a new job at Random House of Canada, as assistant ... Read More »

H.B. Fenn and Company is searching for a new sales director. Kathy Goncharenko resigned her position last week after being recruited to the same position at Stewart House. She will work her last day at ... Read More »

Popular television journalist Pamela Wallin is the latest casualty of the uncertainty surrounding Chapters Online. The e-tailer abruptly ended its relationship with her production company this month by removing Wallin’s pages from their web site.Although ... Read More »

The composition of the executive team that will lead Chapters into its merger with Indigo became clearer last week, as the chain released additional names of executives who have left the company.Along with Glenn Murphy, ... Read More »

Toronto author Jim Munroe says his experiment in self-publishing has been a success – and he’s released the project’s financials on his web site to prove it.Last year, the author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes ... Read More »

A rights mixup has Pearson Canada recalling copies of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Total Nutrition for Canadians, close to a year after its publication.Although Pearson was granted permission to adapt the U.S.-originated Complete Idiot’s ... Read More »