The book trade may be facing an eventual shift to digital delivery, but some small publishers are still clinging to the notion of books as objets d’art. One of them is the Toronto micro-press paperplates ... Read More »

B.C. book publishing got a $2.2-million shot in the arm on Tuesday, with the announcement of a new tax credit for the province’s publishers.The credit will be open only to B.C. publishers who qualify for ... Read More »

McArthur & Company has lost a director of publicity but gained a vice-president. Sherie Hodds, McArthur’s longtime publicity director, is joining H.B. Fenn’s sales force as the eastern rep covering the Maritimes and Montreal. Wasting ... Read More »

Independent bookstores in Vancouver have come to the rescue of the city’s Word on the Street festival. Organizers of the September event had been searching for corporate sponsorship after Chapters pulled financing for WOTS festivals ... Read More »

Torstar has taken the next step in its plan to divest its children’s supplementary education publishing assets. Last week the company announced that it had completed the sale of Delta Education to the New York-based ... Read More »

Canadian-owned publishers may not usually have the resources to publish foreign literary giants, but Fitzhenry & Whiteside will do so next year. The company recently acquired world English rights to a three-volume collection of interviews ... Read More »

Is Canadian literature disappearing from Canadian classrooms? Suspecting that the answer may be yes, the Writers’ Trust of Canada will survey more than 3,200 Canadian high schools across the country this fall to track the ... Read More »

General Distribution Services is continuing its struggle to catch up on payments to client publishers. While some publishers have received partial payment for amounts due at the end of July, others contacted by Inside Report ... Read More »

CDG Books is expecting no changes to its fall publishing schedule or promotion plans – but the longer-term outlook for the company is less certain. New York-based John Wiley & Sons yesterday announced an offer ... Read More »

It’s been a busy summer for film deals at Toronto’s Dundurn Press. Publisher Kirk Howard inked a deal Wednesday for a film option on one title, while a second Dundurn book is heading into production.Howard ... Read More »