Print book sales in the Canadian trade market fell in 2017, dropping by 4% in units sold and 3% in value sold compared to 2016. Overall, Canadian book buyers purchased 51.5 million print books for just over $1 billion in 2017.
With the first six months of 2017 behind us, we crunch some numbers on sales, format preferences, and and channel distribution in the English-language trade book market in Canada.