Waving or drowning?: What the demise of the Saturday Evening Post’s print edition says about the current media environment
The Saturday Evening Post is hugely significant as a legacy publication.
OBPO-operated literary site Open Book to shut down
"We're incredibly grateful for the support Open Book received from national, provincial, and municipal funders over nearly two decades," says Holly Kent, executive director at the OBPO.
“We want to leave the door open”: Hannah McGregor discusses the changes to the publishing program at SFU
"It's not like they say, 'You have to close.' They just give you a budget you could never possibly run a program on."
SFU publishing program “winding down”; publishing minor to move to School of Communication
The announcement is scant on details other than to suggest that moving the minor to the School of Communications is an "obvious fit."
After successful vote, Hachette Book Group now boasts the largest trade publishing union
The union will be part of the larger Washington-Baltimore News Guild.
Hachette cancels upcoming horror novel over suspicions it was written with the help of AI
Not everyone suspected the use of AI early on.
HarperCollins Canada’s new reprint line raises questions about cultural sovereignty and what constitutes a classic
The impetus for HarperCollins Canada's Canadian Classics program does not, in one sense, have anything to do with Canada at all.
Heated Rivalry’s Rachel Reid joins the fray in protesting the Nova Scotia provincial budget cuts to arts and culture
Increasing funding for the arts and culture would also have beneficial health and educational outcomes.
Backlash grows to arts cuts in Nova Scotia’s austerity budget, with protests planned for Wednesday
The budget slashed $130 million in grants as part of an attempt to reduce the $1.2 billion provincial deficit.
The Washington Post shutters its books section among massive layoffs
The move is particularly ironic given that Bezos made his billions off an internet retail site dedicated to selling books.