Itah Sadu, co-owner of Toronto’s A Different Booklist for 20 years, reflects on what the bookstore has meant to its community.
Indigo third-quarter revenue and earnings down due to delayed renovations and Canada Post strike
Indigo Books and Music is reporting a $7.3 million or 1.7 per cent revenue decrease in its third quarter, ending Dec. 29, 2018.
Joe Shyllit’s quirky photo collection Find the Poo is part art book, part Where’s Waldo?
Find the Poo: Without Worrying Where You Step collects two dozen photographs of innocent-looking landscapes. Within each of them lurks a dog turd.
Self-published genre fiction is claiming larger shares of the ebook marketplace
On digital platforms such as Rakuten Kobo, the market share for self-published authors has been increasing steadily each year.
2018 Canadian print sales stable (thanks to Michelle Obama)
Sales of print books in 2018 were on par with 2017 figures at $1.13 billion, BookNet Canada has announced.
Canada’s indie bookstores report Edugyan, Obama are top holiday sellers
The Giller glow is alive and well: indie bookstores from across Canada report that Esi Edugyan’s prize-winning adventure epic Washington Black is one of their bestselling books of the holiday season.
Mabel’s Fables’s Book Angel program has delivered over 13,000 books to children in need
In three decades, the children’s bookstore Mabel’s Fables has donated over 13,000 books to Unison Health Services as part of the shop’s Book Angel Program.
New report offers 75+ recommendations to improve awareness of Canadian books
The power of handselling: how Mill Street Books championed Lesley Choyce’s latest novel
The Bookshelf shares a video homage to literature
The Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, has found a fresh way to share its love and appreciation of the written word.
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