INDIGO’S NEW POLICY "MODELLED ON GROCERY STORES, NOT BOOKSTORES": CLAIMS CANADIAN PUBLISHER
July 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
CANADIAN publishers have attacked the decision by the country's biggest bookshop chain Indigo Books & Music Inc, to stock fewer books and evaluate returns on a shorter timeframe. They claim it is putting extra pressure on the publishing industry when digital technology is already imposing major challenges.
Carolyn Wood, executive director at Association of Canadian Publishers said that while she expects publishers with "big blockbuster" books to remain unscathed from Indigo's policy change, she said that the decision can ...
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