A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
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.
"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.
"In six weeks, nobody is going to care," says David Worsley of Words Worth Books.
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.
Sales were particularly robust in the stores' general merchandise division.
If Amazon is cutting back on its orders, that is sure to cause headaches for publishers entering the all-important holiday selling season.
The loss of the city's poetry-only bookseller is sad as much for what the store represents as for its physical presence.
New stores are cropping up on both sides of the 49th parallel and, even better, many of them appear to be turning a profit.
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.
“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.