CANADIAN PUBLISHERS FACE HEAVY INDIGO RETURNS
August 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
CANADIAN book publishers have been reporting higher levels of returns than normal this summer from Indigo Books and Music, Canada's dominant book retailer, and they say the effects have been damaging.
Toronto-based ECW Press publisher Jack David said returns skyrocketed between May and July, although he did not make statistics available.
However, Carolyn Wood, executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers (ACP), confirmed that some ACP members have mentioned they are having a hard time with Indigo returns.
"I would say it ...
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