Alberta’s major daily newspapers, The Edmonton Journal and The Calgary Herald, have each announced changes to their book sections. Longtime Journal books editor Gordon Morash has been reassigned to feature writing in the paper’s life ... Read More »

Few Canadian authors have been commissioned to write a book specifically for the Japanese market. And rarer still is the kind of contract W.P. Kinsella recently signed – to produce a book about a Japanese ... Read More »

Livingston Cooke agent Suzanne Brandreth will be moving to the other side of the negotiating desk on Monday, taking on the role of editor at Doubleday Canada.Brandreth, who leaves Livingston Cooke today, will fill in ... Read More »

Indigo Books and Music is hoping to keep returns to publishers to a minimum when it closes three Chapters stores in January, but it’s asking publishers to help cover the cost of doing so.Indigo contacted ... Read More »

As the holiday season approaches, Random House of Canada is bolstering its web presence by launching three new consumer sites. Besides an online version of the company’s promotional magazine, Read, the company has created a ... Read More »

McClelland & Stewart and the Writers’ Trust of Canada are joining forces to administer the Journey Prize – an arrangement that will “help elevate the prize and help make it more visible,” says M&S fiction ... Read More »

Reporting strong sales across its list, educational and trade publisher Broadview Press has posted revenue increases well into the double digits in its third-quarter results, released last week.In the three-month period ending Sept. 30, Broadview’s ... Read More »

Despite the threat of a libel lawsuit against H.B. Fenn & Company’s new wrestling biography, Under the Mat, publisher Jordan Fenn will not comment on whether he’ll pull or alter the book. And for now, ... Read More »

It’s every novelist’s nightmare: a rough draft being seen before its time. And now computer viruses such as SirCam and I Love You – the kind that attack a hard drive and e-mail random files ... Read More »