In the week after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature, sales of her books jumped 6,650% in Canada, and saw significant bumps around the world.
Canadian Book Sales Down 10.8 Percent in Q1 2011
According to BookNet Canada, Canadian book sales volume dropped by 10.8% in the first quarter of 2011.
Richard Nash gives “best speech about the future of books” in Canada
By Hannah Johnson “Assuming that the physical book is the only incarnation for the writer-reader connection is, I think, a mistake,” said Richard Nash during his presentation at the BookNet Canada conference called “Calculated Risk: Adventures in Book Publishing” on March 25 in Toronto, Canada. The crux of Nash’s presentation was about supply and demand. The current supply chain that …