by Ryan Porter

Indigo experiments with “hyperlocal” urban pop-up

Black shipping containers make for surprisingly elegant retail space at Stackt Market, located west of Toronto’s downtown entertainment district. The outdoor urban market was the ideal setting for Indigo Books & Music to try its ... Read More »

August 7, 2019

Pico Iyer, André Aciman, and M.G. Vassanji announced for inaugural Jaipur Literature Festival Toronto

By Ryan Porter

Travel writer Pico Iyer, Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman, and two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji are among the first round of speakers announced for the inaugural Jaipur Literature Festival Toronto. ... Read More »

August 2, 2019

Rehtaeh Parsons’s father to co-write book about tragedy with author Susan McClelland

By Ryan Porter

Rehtaeh Parsons’s father, Glen Canning, will co-write a book about his daughter's sexual assault and subsequent suicide, to be published by Goose Lane Editions in 2020. The book will be co-written with journalist and non-fiction author ... Read More »

August 1, 2019

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires books on the fentanyl epidemic, a literary novel, and a collection of Toronto love stories

By Ryan Porter

Dundurn has acquired three new titles: Dundurn associate publisher Kathryn Lane has acquired world rights to Brodie Ramin’s The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic. Ramin will write about the fentanyl epidemic from his ... Read More »

August 1, 2019

Distribution change: Codasat Canada

By Ryan Porter

Effective Dec. 31, 2019, Codasat Canada will no longer sell or accept returns of titles from the University of ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

Daily Deal: Veronica Post’s graphic novel about European “migrant crisis” to Conundrum Press

By Ryan Porter

Conundrum Press publisher Andy Brown has acquired world English rights to Veronica Post’s Langosh and Peppi: Fugitive Days. This debut graphic novel tells the story of the 2015 European “migrant crisis” in Budapest, Hungary, through the ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

Meet the couple behind a small-town Ontario bookstore and thriving fall festival

By Ryan Porter

It was 2012 when Toronto couple Rina Barone and Chris Dunk decided to stop spending their weekends in Creemore, Ontario, and spend their weeks there, too. “We left our jobs in Toronto and moved up ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

One in five searches on Indigo’s homepage leads to in-store purchase, says CMO

By Ryan Porter

Sure, part of the book market has migrated online. But so has the window shopping. Indigo Books & Music chief marketing officer Samantha Taylor says that one in five visitors to the company’s online retail ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

Eden Robinson, Amber Dawn shortlisted for Sunburst Award

By Ryan Porter

The Sunburst Award Committee has announced the shortlist for excellence in Canadian fantasy writing. The winners will be announced in fall 2019. The best adult and young adult books will be awarded $1,000 and the ... Read More »

July 29, 2019

Daily Deals: Between the Lines to publish Suzanne Evans’s biography of female WWII POW

By Ryan Porter

Between the Lines has acquired world rights to Suzanne Evans’s biography of Ethel Mulvany, the only Canadian woman imprisoned by the Japanese in Singapore’s notorious Changi Jail during the Second World War. The Taste of Longing ... Read More »

July 25, 2019

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Indigo experiments with “hyperlocal” urban pop-up

Pico Iyer, André Aciman, and M.G. Vassanji announced for inaugural Jaipur Literature Festival Toronto

Rehtaeh Parsons’s father to co-write book about tragedy with author Susan McClelland

Daily Deals: Dundurn acquires books on the fentanyl epidemic, a literary novel, and a collection of Toronto love stories

Distribution change: Codasat Canada

Daily Deal: Veronica Post’s graphic novel about European “migrant crisis” to Conundrum Press

Meet the couple behind a small-town Ontario bookstore and thriving fall festival

One in five searches on Indigo’s homepage leads to in-store purchase, says CMO

Eden Robinson, Amber Dawn shortlisted for Sunburst Award

Daily Deals: Between the Lines to publish Suzanne Evans’s biography of female WWII POW

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