When Ontario Media Development Corporation CEO Adam Ostry set out for the Frankfurt Book Fair this month, he was wondering if the government agency should help send a larger Ontario contingent to future fairs. But ... Read More »

The Editors’ Association of Canada is looking to raise the profile of those who toil in the background by attaching a cash prize to the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence, for the first time ... Read More »

Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop had hoped to wrap up its court battle with the Ontario government last week – but the trial’s conclusion has been held over until next month.Last Thursday and Friday, the gay ... Read More »

Abebooks is proceeding with its international expansion plans. The Victoria-based company has acquired JustBooks, one of the major European Internet services for used and antiquarian books in Europe.“It was more or less a share swap,” ... Read More »

The 2001 Nobel laureate for literature, V.S. Naipaul, may be better-known than some previous winners, but Canadian rights to his latest release, Half a Life, appear to have gone unclaimed. The announcement of Naipaul’s Nobel ... Read More »

In a surprise announcement yesterday, Distican named longtime employee Sally Lougheed as its new vice-president of sales and marketing – a move tied to the abrupt departure of Ann Ledden, who had previously held the ... Read More »

The roots of terrorism and the aftermath of war are the timely topics of forthcoming novels from Anita Rau Badami and Kerri Sakamoto. Both recently signed contracts with Knopf Canada (which published both of their ... Read More »

Stewart House will no longer distribute the high-profile Visual Bible series in North America. But the reasons for the split – which comes only a year after the young agency picked up the line – ... Read More »