HOLIDAY BOOK SALES – CANADA
January 1st, 2004
BY PHILIP FINE, in Montreal, Canada
An extra day in this year's Christmas week seemed to be the key to helping
Canadian book sales make a strong showing in a season marked by healthy
non-fiction sales. Paul McNally, owner of the four-store prairie chain,
McNally Robinson, says that Christmas falling on a Thursday was the key to
a 35 per cent jump in sales from last year. Most of his bestsellers were
Canadian, with Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret
MacMillan, showing 'amazing' sales. "We sold 500 copies in one store
alone," he ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.