Pearl Luke, the Calgary author who recently won a regional Commonwealth Prize for her debut novel, Burning Ground, has joined a select group of writers who can sell books without having written a word.At a ... Read More »

Although it may seem like a precarious time to enter the bookselling business, the new owner of a small-town Ontario bookstore is optimistic about his recent purchase.Mark Reid took over Under Cover, a 1,000-square-foot store ... Read More »

Canbook Distribution Services is expanding. This summer the company will add 28,000 square feet to its warehouse in Newmarket, Ontario, to make room for Dorling Kindersley titles that it contracted to distribute as of July ... Read More »

As news of Mordecai Richler’s death spread yesterday, his passing was already being felt in bookstores across the country. Publishers and booksellers alike mourned the passing of one of Canada’s most prominent authors – and ... Read More »

Yesterday’s year-end results for Chapters and Chapters Online show a company struggling to rebuild itself after heavy losses to distribution and inventory problems at Chapters Online and the former Pegasus Wholesale.Chapters posted a whopping year-end ... Read More »

Organizers of Toronto’s Word on the Street book fair have launched a new funding initiative with an idea borrowed from the Halifax and Vancouver editions of the festival.Called “Adopt-an-Author,” the campaign asks individuals, companies, or ... Read More »

Three Canadian celebrities have lent their names and images to a new effort to promote reading among young people. The month-long “Get Caught Reading” campaign, spearheaded by the Canadian Publishers’ Council, kicks off next week ... Read More »

Carol Shields has completed a new novel, her eighth, which has been sold to Random House Canada and 4th Estate in the U.K. for publication next spring. Each sale has garnered Shields an advance “well ... Read More »

Montreal-based children’s publisher Lobster Press has eliminated two senior positions, part of a downsizing that will also see the company reduce its list by half, from about 25 to 12 books a year. Publisher Alison ... Read More »

Little York Books & Café has become the latest Toronto bookstore to close shop in recent years, following The Book Cellar, Britnell’s, Writers & Co., and the Lichtman’s mini-chain. Little York will cease operation after ... Read More »