Canadian publishing’s dilemma: Indigo has abandoned books; it’s also become too big to fail
Indigo can't fail, but it also appears less and less interested in operating primarily as a bookseller.
Breaking up is hard to do: Cory Doctorow argues for the end of corporate concentration online in his new manifesto
What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.
One month after her attempted retirement, Heather Reisman is back as Indigo CEO
Reisman's return must at least in part be seen as the path of least resistance.
TIFA announces Alana Wilcox as recipient of the 2023 Ivy Award
Wilcox will receive her award at this year's iteration of TIFA, on September 25.
Peter Ruis, CEO at Indigo, resigns after only one year, compounding the company’s troubles
The upper-level management shakeups come at a particularly perilous time for Indigo.
Eleanor Catton and David Bergen are among the twelve writers on the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
Twelve titles in total made the 2023 longlist, which was culled from a record-setting 145 submissions.
Josh Cook peels back the curtain on independent bookselling in his essay collection The Art of Libromancy
Cook acknowledges that some of his ideas may not be shared by others in the industry, or even others in the same store at which he is employed.
Annick Press to extend its mentorship program for marginalized writers
The deadline for submissions to this round of the program is September 29.
Climate change and political unrest at the end of the world in novels by Tomas Hachard and Michelle Min Sterling
City in Flames and Camp Zero address societal discord via imaginative scenarios that only slightly exaggerated from the evening news.
Craig DiLouie re-imagines the haunted house story for the reality TV era
DiLouie is clearly a fan of both haunted house stories and found footage movies.