Black Sheep Books, the financially troubled Vancouver bookstore, has lined up a local singer-songwriter to play a benefit concert for the store. Veda Hille, a nationally known alternative folk-rock singer, agreed to the June 1 ... Read More »

New York City’s bright lights lured Canadian publishing veteran Oliver Salzmann away from England, but only for a fleeting moment. After only seven months as managing director of art-book publisher Taschen America, Salzmann is back ... Read More »

Pearson Education Canada has announced several new appointments at the executive level, in a move to help set the stage for CEO Tony Vander Woude’s exit.“Tony is reaching a point in his career when he’s ... Read More »

Vancouver children’s author Graham McNamee is the inaugural winner of the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship. Naylor, an American author of more than 100 books of fiction and a Newbery Medal winner, established the $5,000 ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart’s longtime director of publicity, Kelly Hechler, has left the publisher as of today for a new career in the financial industry. Having been with M&S for 13 of her 16 years in ... Read More »

Broadview Press, one of Canada’s few publicly traded publishing companies, recorded a 25% sales increase in 2000. But the Calgary academic publisher has reported in its year-end results that net profit dropped by nearly 90% ... Read More »

Good news for BookExpo Canada exhibitors: Chapters confirmed this week that it will be returning to the annual convention and trade show after a two-year absence.Judy Sharpe, director of marketing for Reed Exhibition Companies, said ... Read More »

Two potential new entrants into Canadian bookselling scored a partial victory yesterday in their quest to influence the Competition Tribunal’s decision on the Chapters-Indigo merger. The Tribunal has granted Anil Amlani and Bruce Barr – ... Read More »