Is publishing in Canada broken? No, but dismissing an entire segment of the ecosystem certainly doesn’t help
Rather than farm teams, it's preferable to think of smaller publishers as craft breweries or artisinal vineyards.
Independent booksellers report strong holiday sales; publishers see challenges continuing into 2022
“I figure we lost a huge number of sales in October,” says Simon Dardick, co-publisher of Montreal’s Véhicule Press. “By the time the books came out we had missed deadlines.”