The news broke during the first day of the BEA trade show: the huge multinational corporation Vivendi Universal had agreed to pay $2.2-billion (in cash and debt assumption) to acquire the U.S. publisher Houghton Mifflin.Thomas ... Read More »

Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop is back in court. On Wednesday and Thursday last week, the gay and lesbian bookstore appeared in a Toronto courtroom to dispute a charge of distributing a video that had not ... Read More »

The Periodical Writers Association of Canada has a new president. Ann Douglas was acclaimed to the position at the group’s annual general meeting and conference in Montreal on the weekend. Douglas, 37, is the author ... Read More »

A Publishers Marketing Association white paper on the problem of returns was the subject of a lively Sunday-morning panel at BookExpo America in Chicago last weekend. But while panelist Dominique Raccah – president and publisher ... Read More »

While there are plenty of children’s books awards chosen by adults, young readers in Ontario and Atlantic Canada recently had the opportunity to pick their favourites.More than 42,000 Ontario students in grades 4, 5, and ... Read More »

Novelist and short story author Audrey Thomas has won the W.O. Mitchell Literary Prize. Established in 1997, and administered in association with the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the $15,000 prize honours an author’s outstanding body ... Read More »

Taylor & Francis Group, the U.K.-based multinational that includes the U.S. academic press Routledge, has obtained a new Canadian distribution deal.T&F has joined Nexar Book Distribution in Scarborough, Ontario, which also distributes Publishers Group West. ... Read More »

Police are investigating the mysterious disappearance of a Victoria bookseller who has been missing for nearly three weeks.Roy McFarlane, an employee of Munro’s Books, was last seen on the evening of May 14 riding his ... Read More »