EBOOKS SALES SURGE IN CANADA THIS CHRISTMAS

BY EMMA JACKSON Christmas 2010 in Canada saw small gains for print products and huge increases in ebook sales, claimed several major publishers and Indigo Books& Music, Canada's largest retailer."Last year was a record year, and we did better this year," said Harper Collins Canada (HCC) CEO David Kent. Vancouver-based D&MPublishers also noted gains, especially through its Giller prize (Canada's main literary prize) winner The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud, which sold about 120,000 copies leading up to the Christmas according to sales ...


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