by Steven W. Beattie

Indigo’s financial difficulties have a blowback effect for Canadian publishers and distributors

The business fallout from COVID-19 has affected every sector of the book industry in Canada, and it has not spared the country’s largest chain bookseller. Indigo Books & Music Inc. shuttered all its physical locations ... Read More »

May 28, 2020

Nascent Ontario publisher Stelliform Press aims to produce science fiction, fantasy, and horror with an environmental bent

By Steven W. Beattie

As the climate crisis continues apace (notwithstanding having taken a back seat in the media to more immediate concerns in recent months), one nascent publisher is determined to address the subject, both in what it ... Read More »

May 4, 2020

Bill Hushion remembered as an irascible, good-humoured salesman who truly cared about books and bookselling

By Steven W. Beattie

Bill Hushion, the legendary Canadian publishing sales and marketing executive, once staked a promise of a discount on an arm wrestle. Donna Brendon, formerly a bookstore coordinator for the West Coast chain Save-On-Foods, found herself ... Read More »

April 15, 2020

Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Alex Trebek

By Steven W. Beattie

What is a presumptive national bestesller? The answer is the forthcoming memoir by long-time Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek. Simon & Schuster announced today that the company has secured print and audio rights to Trebek’s book, ... Read More »

April 14, 2020

Doyali Islam, Kaie Kellough, and Sharon Olds among the nominees for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

By Steven W. Beattie

Toronto poet Doyali Islam’s second collection, heft, is among three Canadian titles in the running for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. Islam’s publisher, McClelland & Stewart, and its poetry editor, Dionne Brand, were responsible for ... Read More »

April 7, 2020

Book distributors work to deliver stock to customers during COVID-19

By Steven W. Beattie

If there is one thing that COVID-19 has clearly demonstrated, says Jamie Broadhurst, it is the resourcefulness with which booksellers in Canada have responded in an effort to keep getting books into the hands of ... Read More »

April 6, 2020

In her new collection, Dani Spinosa locates visual poetry at the nexus of analogue and digital traditions

By Steven W. Beattie

“I love the weird, nostalgic fetishism of the typewriter,” says poet and academic Dani Spinosa, whose new collection, OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing), is a kind of extended love letter to the technology of a ... Read More »

April 2, 2020

Souvankham Thammavongsa

By Steven W. Beattie

Poet Souvankham Thammavongsa shifts gears with a sharp and steely new collection of short stories

March 5, 2020

Reed Exhibitions officially cancels London Book Fair over COVID-19 concerns

By Steven W. Beattie

Reed Exhibitions has announced that the London Book Fair, scheduled to take place March 10–12, has been cancelled. In a statement, Reed says the cancellation comes “following the escalation of COVID-19 Coronavirus in Europe.” The ... Read More »

March 4, 2020

Sarah MacLachlan to retire in June, Bruce Walsh named as new publisher at House of Anansi

By Steven W. Beattie

Big changes are ahead for one of Canada’s premiere domestic publishers. After 16 years, Sarah MacLachlan is retiring as president and publisher of House of Anansi Press and president of Groundwood Books. A press release ... Read More »

March 4, 2020

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Indigo’s financial difficulties have a blowback effect for Canadian publishers and distributors

Nascent Ontario publisher Stelliform Press aims to produce science fiction, fantasy, and horror with an environmental bent

Bill Hushion remembered as an irascible, good-humoured salesman who truly cared about books and bookselling

Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Alex Trebek

Doyali Islam, Kaie Kellough, and Sharon Olds among the nominees for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize

Book distributors work to deliver stock to customers during COVID-19

In her new collection, Dani Spinosa locates visual poetry at the nexus of analogue and digital traditions

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Reed Exhibitions officially cancels London Book Fair over COVID-19 concerns

Sarah MacLachlan to retire in June, Bruce Walsh named as new publisher at House of Anansi

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