Canadian Independent Bookstore Day takes place April 30.
Unique federal grant program available for Canadian booksellers
A new program called Support for Booksellers will provide grants to fund improvements in how stores sell books online, as a result of two years of strong growth in online sales during the pandemic.
Flying Books opens new store
Bestsellers: David A. Robertson has had books on the bestsellers lists for a combined 118 weeks
The prolific author and two-time Governor General’s Award winner has had multiple bestselling titles over the past year.
CIBA’s holiday marketing campaign looks beyond gift guides
For this year’s holiday shopping season, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association is encouraging book buyers to look past curated lists and rely instead on the expertise of their local indie bookseller.
A Different Booklist looks ahead to an expanded home
The bookstore’s new home and expanded cultural centre, which will continue to celebrate African and Caribbean heritage, will anchor the legacy A Different Booklist has created over more than two decades.
Remote book events likely to continue after the pandemic
Toronto indie A Different Booklist offering preview of new home
The bookstore and African- and Caribbean-Canadian cultural centre will be moving across the street in 2022 to a four-storey heritage building that is being preserved as part of Toronto’s revitalized Mirvish Village project.
Bookstores of all sizes will benefit from new bookselling survey, says CIBA’s Doug Minett
As an incentive, booksellers who complete the survey will have early access to the full report from BookNet when it is published this fall.
Indigo is bringing a local focus to its bookstores across the country
Indigo launched its Discover Your Community program in April. The program will run for 12 weeks at more than 100 Indigo, Chapters, Coles, and Indigospirit locations across the country
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