At Publishers Weekly, John Maher has written up the inspiring tale of a Canadian bookstore-turned-publisher that’s taken a distinctly old-school approach to confronting the galactic menace that is Amazon. As… Read more »

As sweet radicals, French snobs, film-lovers, and spies have long known, archivists rule. They’re front-line warriors against entropy, tireless crusaders for the integrity of primary materials, and, more often than not, scintillating experts… Read more »

Massive library closures and a new tax on books in Newfoundland and Labrador have sparked criticism that the Canadian province’s government cares little to nothing about literacy. Last week, CBC News’… Read more »

An author’s fascinating or salacious backstory can be key to a book’s allure (and marketing campaign). But the taste of the reading public isn’t infinitely flexible, and this is nowhere… Read more »

We’ve all done it. We patronize our local library, we bring our books home, set them on the shelf or in a pile, and make a good-hearted attempt to read… Read more »

It’s no secret that books are dangerous, and that they pose a threat young students. For every student whose life is saved by a book, there are dozens more innocent… Read more »

Will Butler is not the first Butler you think of when you think of the 113-piece Canadian rock band The Arcade Fire. That would be his brother Win, a tall man (7’1″)who is… Read more »

In the face of increasing rents for retail space, the flagship location of a major Canadian book chain has announced that it will shut down as of this summer. Mike… Read more »

When Sean Michaels, debut author, learned that he’d won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Us Conductors, about the life and times of Lev Termen, inventor of the theremin,… Read more »

As the Amazon-Hachette dispute rolls on, we’ve been covering the plight of American authors, and how through initiatives like Authors United writers are speaking up against Amazon and its bad… Read more »