Torstar has announced plans to sell off one of its elementary school publishing holdings. The company will sell the Torrance, California-based early childhood publisher Frank Schaffer Publications to McGraw Hill Education; the sale is expected ... Read More »

Halifax author Carol Bruneau is more than $6,000 richer after winning two of the Atlantic Writing Awards presented last week. Bruneau’s novel Purple for Sky took both the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, worth $1,200, ... Read More »

Advertising, marketing, and literary agency the Omikron Group has announced a restructuring that has resulted in two new companies and a plan to expand its foreign rights efforts in China. Ted Snell, Omikron’s director of ... Read More »

The Periodical Writers Association of Canada has hired a new executive director – again.Mary Rose MacLachlan, a freelance permissions and photo researcher with 15 years of experience in publishing, starts the job next Monday. She ... Read More »

After much delay and controversy, the relaunch of Books in Canada is set for this summer. Owner and publisher Adrian Stein says the first issue of the revamped magazine will appear in July, and will ... Read More »

Orca Book Publishers has taken two of the Canadian Library Association’s three annual book awards for children and young adult books, while Red Deer Press has picked up the third.Orca’s Before Wings, by Beth Goobie, ... Read More »

Penguin Canada may be losing one of their mystery mainstays in Peter Robinson, but the company got to celebrate this week as their longtime author’s latest book won the Arthur Ellis Award for best novel.Cold ... Read More »

Freelance writer Heather Robertson’s $100-million class action lawsuit against the Globe and Mail, seeking royalty payments for freelancers for electronic reproduction of their work, is moving forward. Both parties were in court earlier this month ... Read More »