CANADA BOOK MARKET STAGNANT SAYS GOVERNMENT REPORT
February 1st, 2008
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
CANADIAN book buying culture has changed dramatically over the past 15 years resulting in a discount obsessed, bestseller driven market that has gone flat despite a record number of books being released by Canadian publishers says a recent report conducted for Heritage Canada, a Federal government agency.
The Book Retail Sector in Canada study confirms that the creation of Chapters in 1995 and its subsequent takeover by Toronto-based Indigo Books Music and More in 2001 have decisively shifted book retailing in Canada towards a market ...
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