Category: Canada

Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as book...

Posted by Mark Williams | May 23, 2020 | bookstores, Canada, Coronavirus, Global Publishing, North America, The global book market | 0 |

Kobo Plus subscription service prepares launches i...

Posted by Mark Williams | May 17, 2020 | Belgium, Canada, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, France, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

Canada’s publishers face deluge of returns as bookstores re-open after eight weeks lockdown and a 63% drop in sales

by Mark Williams | May 23, 2020 | bookstores, Canada, Coronavirus, Global Publishing, North America, The global book market | 0 |

Canada’s book publishing trade association Booknet is warning that as bookstores open their doors...

Kobo Plus subscription service prepares launches in France and Canada

by Mark Williams | May 17, 2020 | Belgium, Canada, Digital subscription, ebook subscription services, France, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

Hat tip to The Digital Reader for kicking off this story. Yesterday Nate Hoffelder ran an item...

Wattpad, “the world’s leading platform for writers”, plans second Canada HQ in Halifax

by Mark Williams | Dec 14, 2019 | Canada, Global Publishing, Mobile publishing, The global book market, Wattpad | 0 |

With its headquarters in Toronto and offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai,...

Amazon bookstores embrace spine-out shelf-stacking. Indigo sales fall again. And two sides to the Macmillan digital library boycott saga

by Mark Williams | Nov 9, 2019 | Amazon, Canada, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, Global Publishing, USA | 0 |

Some Amazon critics may have been excited by the opening of Nate Hoffelder’s recent post in The...

Three months jail for not returning a library book. EC horror comics. Canada’s only poetry book store. China’s biggest book store

by Mark Williams | Nov 8, 2019 | bookstores, Canada, China, Global Publishing, The global book market, USA | 0 |

Thanks to Instagram, poetry has been given a new lease of life, with the beauty of poetry suddenly...

De Marque acquires Feedbook assets including the Feedbook digital books catalogue for $0.25 million, taking De Marque to 1.4 million titles

by Mark Williams | Aug 29, 2019 | Aggregators, bookstores, Canada, Digital Libraries, Ebooks, France, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

Paying just 230,000 euros (US$ 254,000) for the assets of the collapsed ebook store Feedbooks, the...

Amazon launches full language support for Traditional Chinese outside China, but is the 2007 Bezos vision of “every book ever printed, in any language, available in less than 60 seconds” still on the agenda?

by Mark Williams | May 24, 2019 | Amazon, Canada, China, CreateSpace, Ebooks, Global Publishing, The global book market | 0 |

It was November 2014 when Amazon last launched a new Kindle store, almost seven years to the day...

North America digital comics market worth upwards of $100 million in 2018. More when subscriptions factored in

by Mark Williams | May 7, 2019 | Canada, Comics, Global Publishing, North America, USA | 0 |

It’s anyone’s guess what the value of the global comics market is, but for North America the best...

StreetLib partners with Singapore-based STARY's Dreame and FicFun mobile reading apps

by Mark Williams | Apr 29, 2019 | Australia, Canada, Global Publishing, Micro-Fiction, Mobile publishing, Pakistan, Philippines, Publishing News, Singapore, The global book market | 0 |

Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered...

African Publishing – The $5 Billion Digital Opportunity as Nigeria becomes 7th largest country by online population

by Mark Williams | Apr 3, 2019 | Africa, Algeria, Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, D.R. Congo, Ebooks, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Global Publishing, Italy, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Senegal, South America, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Tanzania, The global book market, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe | 0 |

At the IPA Africa Seminar in Lagos in 2018 it was reported that the African book market was worth...

“A voiceless nation, too busy staying alive to create literary pieces in foreign languages”

by Mark Williams | Mar 3, 2019 | Canada, Global Publishing, Iran, Kurdistan, Publishing News, The global book market | 0 |

In what is believed to be a first, a Kurdish woman will be publishing a novel written in English....

The Week In Review

by Mark Williams | Aug 19, 2018 | Book Fairs, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Ebooks, Europe, Germany, Global Publishing, Latin America, Oceania, Publishing Brief, Publishing News, Scandinavia, Sweden, Taiwan, The global book market, The New Publishing Standard | 0 |

Here’s a summary of TNPS posts from the past seven days. Big Bad Wolf shows the...