The book industry’s biggest event for literary rights acquisitions, the Frankfurt Book Fair, takes place in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 11–15.
Canadian Authors for Indies, now in its third year, struggles to grow
Canadian Authors for Indies is seeing dwindling bookseller participation for its third annual event, taking place across the country on April 29.
Canadian indie presses respond to NYT’s axing of some bestseller lists
The New York Times announced on Jan. 25 that it would be culling its bestseller lists as part of some… Read More »
Independent booksellers reflect on 2016 holiday season
Booksellers are recouping from a busy holiday shopping season‚ during which many of the titles they anticipated would be the biggest sellers were in-demand through to the end of 2016.
Thien and Boyden top holiday sales lists‚ booksellers say
With the retail industry this month in the midst of its busiest shopping season of the year‚ indie booksellers are taking note of the 2016 titles particularly popular with holiday shoppers.
Adult colouring books outsold Girl on the Train in 2015
Canadian book distributors have been busy this holiday season keeping up with demand for what booksellers are calling “the never-ending… Read More »
Multiple titles, including colouring books, making up bulk of book sales this holiday season
No one title is driving bookstore sales this holiday shopping season, according to independent booksellers across Canada. Diana O’Neill, manager… Read More »
Skyhorse moves up Towhey book on Rob Ford to compete with Filion’s Random House title
Following last week’s news that Random House Canada will publish a book on Rob Ford by Toronto city councillor John… Read More »
Booksellers doubtful U.K.-style Super Thursday event could work in Canada
U.K. readers are getting their wallets – and elbows – ready for Super Thursday, the day the British publishing industry… Read More »
AbeBooks sells $25,000 signed first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
AbeBooks, the Victoria-based online book marketplace, recently announced an in-house record sale of a Roald Dahl title: $25,000 for a… Read More »
How Newmarket’s Podium Publishing discovered The Martian before Hollywood
Greg Lawrence and James Tonn were the first to see – or hear – potential in The Martian. Andy Weir’s… Read More »
Literary agent Denise Bukowski switches things up with translation into English
Denise Bukowski, founder of Toronto literary representatives the Bukowski Agency, has seen a new kind of success with the sale… Read More »
Go Set a Watchman offers competition to Grey
The much-anticipated (and media spotlighted) sophomore novel by Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman (HarperCollins Canada), was released internationally on… Read More »
The Bookmark Halifax celebrates 25 years
On the first week of December, 25 years ago, Rodney Jones opened The Bookmark on Spring Garden Road in downtown Halifax.… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction
Esi Edugyan’s Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, Half-Blood Blues, tops this week’s list of Canadian fiction bestsellers, followed closely by Giller-shortlisted… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: children’s books
This week’s bestsellers list covers the top 20 children’s titles for the two weeks ending July 24, 2011. Werewolves in… Read More »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: children’s books
This week’s bestsellers list covers the top 20 children’s titles for the two weeks ending June 26, 2011. Rachel Renée… Read More »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: Canadian fiction
The following are the bestselling Canadian fiction titles for the two weeks ending June 19, 2011. Jane Urquhart’s Sanctuary Line,… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian trade paper fiction
This week’s bestsellers list features the top Canadian trade paperback fiction titles for the two weeks ending May 8, 2011.… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Political science
As election fever approaches its highest pitch, this week’s bestsellers focus on political science. The list shows a disparity of… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian non-fiction
This week’s bestsellers list, which looks at Canadian non-fiction, contains multiple entries from personal finance guru Gail Vaz-Oxlade (who appears… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction
This week’s list covers the best-selling Canadian fiction for the two weeks ending Jan. 23, 2011. Barney’s Version enters the… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Top Canadian titles
The following Canadian books were the biggest sellers during the climax of the crucial Christmas shopping season. HarperCollins dominates the… Read More »
BookNet bestsellers: Canadian fiction
This week’s bestsellers list, which focuses exclusively on books released in 2010, looks at the top Canadian fiction for the… Read More »
BookNet Canada bestsellers: Canadian 2010 fiction
This week’s bestsellers list, which focuses exclusively on books released in 2010, looks at the top Canadian fiction titles published… Read More »
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