INDIGO VYING FOR PLACE IN ONTARIO SCHOOL LIBRARIES
October 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa
CANADA'S Indigo Books & Music is receiving criticism for taking a role in a controversial Ontario election campaign promise that would see the dominant bookseller supplying books to the province's school libraries.
Ahead of his reelection this month, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty promised to spend CDN$80-million for books for Ontario school libraries over the next four years, naming Indigo as the projected sole supplier, "at cost". This has library wholesalers and independent book retailers worried.
Susan Dayus, ...
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