CHRISTMAS BOOK SALES 2005 – CANADA
January 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN and MONICA DOBIE
It's been a pretty satisfying Christmas season for Canadian booksellers even if there wasn't a "must-have" book on everybody's shopping list. "The more predictable nature of the sales period meant booksellers could buy judiciously, leaving them with fewer returns and a wider breadth of overall title sales," says Susan Dayus, execuritve director of the Canadian Booksellers Association. Every month of the last quarter of the year saw most booksellers reporting increased sales over 2004 with the greatest jump in ...
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