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Around the web: Standing up for morally ambiguous characters, a romance novelist fakes her own death, RIP Russell Banks, and more

January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

Heading into 2023, it appears that inflation, which is being felt particularly where hardcovers are concerned, has booksellers nervous about purchasing patterns over the coming months.

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BooksellingCensorshipThe Colophon

Racist incident at the Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario, involves an encounter with a man trying to remove “anti-white” books from store shelves

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.

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Prince Harry’s memoir debuts tomorrow after leaks, saturation coverage

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023

"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.

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#BookTok and personal memoirs drive the year’s bestselling books, according to the Toronto Star

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

Both the overall nonfiction and Canadian nonfiction lists are dominated by celebrity memoirs and personal writing at the expense of more deeply researched objective nonfiction.

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Strong digital and non-book sales account for largely positive second-quarter results for Indigo

November 21, 2022November 21, 2022

Sales were particularly robust in the stores' general merchandise division.

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BooksellingTechnologyThe Colophon

Large-scale layoffs at Amazon include staff in the books division, says CEO

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022

If Amazon is cutting back on its orders, that is sure to cause headaches for publishers entering the all-important holiday selling season.

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With the closure of Knife Fork Book, Toronto loses a beloved haven for poetry bookselling

September 16, 2022September 16, 2022

The loss of the city's poetry-only bookseller is sad as much for what the store represents as for its physical presence.

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Cautious optimism abounds about the resilience of independent bookselling as new stores appear in the U.S. and Canada

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022

New stores are cropping up on both sides of the 49th parallel and, even better, many of them appear to be turning a profit.

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BooksellingPublishingThe Colophon

Bookstores and publishers on both sides of the border react to the recent SCOTUS decision overturning Roe v. Wade

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022

In the U.S. and Canada, the literary community is rallying in support of women whose rights have disappeared as a result of Friday's ruling.

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Biblioasis’s new terms of sale for Canadian independents aim to support an industry sector that acts as the lifeblood for domestic publishers

March 11, 2022June 14, 2022

“The biggest issue facing us is visibility,” says publisher Daniel Wells, who hopes that the new terms will incentivize independent booksellers to stock and hold his house’s titles.

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