Saturday Night magazine, one of the country’s premier venues for book excerpts and short fiction, has ceased publishing, CanWest Global Communications announced yesterday.The company has also scaled back operations at the National Post, eliminating 130 ... Read More »

Author and librarian Ken Setterington, known to many as a member of a CBC Radio children’s book panel, has received this year’s Toronto Arts Award in the publishing and writing category.Appointed the first children and ... Read More »

A fledgling Newfoundland micro-publisher, officially launched last weekend, is hoping to demonstrate the effectiveness of niche publishing.Running the Goat Press launched its first title, Carmelita McGrath’s Ghost Poems, in St. John’s last Sunday. Publisher Marnie ... Read More »

Four Canadian publishers are moving to regularly use recycled paper in the production of their books. Raincoast Books, McClelland & Stewart, New Society Publishers, and University of British Columbia Press have all signed commitments with ... Read More »

In the world of online retailing, “disintermediation” is the new buzzword. It’s a fancy, rather clinical word for the age-old notion of cutting out the middleman, or as Randal Palach puts it, “taking costs out ... Read More »