CANADIANS STILL PREFER THE PRINTED WORD AT CHRISTMAS
January 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN OTTAWA
DESPITE the growing popularity of e-books sales worldwide, Canadian physical book sales held up this Christmas. "Over the holiday season, the Canadian print book market saw a very slight decrease in sales," said Samantha Francis, spokeswoman for not-for-profit agency BookNet Canada, which tracks the sales of 75% of print books in Canada. Although Canadian-based international e-Reader company Kobo claimed to have experienced record sales this year, value sold for print books in 2011 in Canada was down by just 1.44% overall ...
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