Returns from Chapters have been a near-constant headache for publishers over the past year or so – but usually quantity and condition are the issues. Now, though, the very packing has caused some head-scratching. Last ... Read More »

Booksellers and publishers alike are quick to acknowledge the power of informed handselling – and now they have a case study to point to. Over the past nine months, a Toronto independent has sold 500 ... Read More »

Pegasus Wholesale has made its first concrete move into the library market with the establishment of a new division, Pegasus Library and Education Services, and the acquisition of the wholesale operation of Toronto Children’s Book ... Read More »

Troll Book Clubs has closed for business in Canada, leaving only one player in the competitive school book-club market. Ben Kooter, who began running Troll Book Clubs in 1990, had licensed the Troll name in ... Read More »

Raincoast Books is planning to expand its wholesale and distribution business following the sale of a 25% stake in the company to California-based Advanced Marketing Services. The Vancouver publisher has also decided to enter the ... Read More »

Pearson Education has divested two of its el-hi series to Canadian-owned firms, completing one of the key undertakings required by Ottawa when it signed off on the merger of Prentice Hall Canada and Addison Wesley ... Read More »

With turbulence having rocked Canadian publishing for a solid year now, the country’s book printers are increasingly looking south of the Canada-U.S. border for growth.At Winnipeg’s Friesens, work for American publishers is up 35% over ... Read More »

How do you cut CanLit in half? Just ask William Toye. For the just-published The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, the editor was faced with the task of whittling the 1,200-page full edition down ... Read More »