Fans who have been waiting nearly 20 years for the sequel to Stephen King and Peter Straub’s collaborative novel The Talisman won’t have to wait much longer.Toronto’s World’s Biggest Bookstore plans on being the first ... Read More »

A significant source of government support for B.C. publishers will disappear next week, with the cancellation of a popular program that financed book purchases by school libraries.The Association of Book Publishers of British Columbia has ... Read More »

Westwood Creative Artists has established a new subsidiary to connect the literary agency’s large stable of authors with film talent and production deals – both in Canada and internationally.The new firm – WCA Film & ... Read More »

Independent bookstores in Atlantic Canada are taking their message to television this fall. Fourteen member stores of the Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Association (APBA) have invested $2,000 each – with an additional $2,000 kicked in by ... Read More »

An edict from Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has Raincoast Books rethinking some of its fall promotion plans. As anticipation builds for the Nov. 16 release of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the ... Read More »

Peter Farkas, of the Toronto firm Richter and Partners, has been appointed the trustee responsible for divestment of selected Indigo assets under the Competition Tribunal’s consent order. Farkas will now have four months to try ... Read More »

Key Porter Books associate publisher Susan Renouf left the company last week on a sabbatical. President Diane Davy says Renouf, currently vacationing in Iceland and Greenland with author Farley Mowat and others, will be away ... Read More »

The sudden death of Turnstone Press managing editor Manuela Dias has left her colleagues in mourning and the company in search of a leader.Dias, who had worked at the Winnipeg publisher for more than a ... Read More »

Chapters plans to open another 16 superstores in fiscal 2000, following a year of record revenues and earnings.Sales for the year ending April 3 leapt 27% to $578-million, while profits rose 23% to $10.3-million, or ... Read More »

Acquisitions made in 1998 are paying off for Quebec-based Transcontinental Printing, which recently reported its 18th consecutive quarter of higher revenues and profit. Earnings for the period ending July 31 rose 44% to $8.2-million, while ... Read More »