A look back at the first half of 2024 in the Canadian book industry.
On the environment: Why do a greenhouse gas audit?
2023 Canadian book market half-year review
2021 Canadian book market half-year review
2020 Canadian book market half-year review
Canadian authors: The whys and hows of identifying them in your data
A bookish visit to Seoul
2015: A numeric summary
Canadian Readers by the Numbers
As part of BookNet’s research into the Canadian book buyer, we have been running a small survey of Canadians’ reading and leisure habits for the last 3 years. Where our book-buying research is focused on book buyers, this research is meant to focus more on how Canadians spend their leisure time and, more specifically, on how and when they are reading books (in any format). In this post, we’ll take a look at some of our findings.National Forum on the Literary Arts
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the National Forum on the Literary Arts hosted by the Canada Council in Montreal. The forum brought together ~250 participants from the literary arts from across Canada to discuss a future vision for Canadian literature. Participants came from an array of professions; authors, editors, librarians, literary agents, government organizations, educators, media, storytellers, publishers, booksellers (I think?) and association staff were all present. The purpose was to get a variety of different views on how digital change is affecting the ‘literary milieu.
