STODDART THINK PIECE

BY MONICA DOBIECANADIAN publishers are licking their wounds after a summer ill spent with paperwork, lawyers fees and frustration because of the crash of Jack Stoddart's General Publishing Co. Ltd. and its book distribution arm, General Distribution Services Ltd. (GDS), which filed for voluntary bankruptcy last month at an Ontario court.Rather than lounging around, sipping cold drinks in the hot sun, many publishers were fraught with worry, not having been paid for five months, waiting on bailout payments from provincial and federal governments, whilst continuing ...


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