Indigo’s response to “cybersecurity incident” has been woefully inadequate
Indigo has little control over whether its system gets hacked. What it does have control over is how it responds to the situation.
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A Blog About Books and Reading
Indigo has little control over whether its system gets hacked. What it does have control over is how it responds to the situation.
The company is working to "understand if customer data has been accessed."
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.