Canadian Booksellers Plead for Tariff Exemption on US-Imported Books
There’s a lesson here for publishers everywhere that rely on US trade.
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Category: Canada
Canada – Was it coincidence that “disappointing” results from Indigo came just days after a bid for the company?
Where it gets interesting is that just days before these results were announced, an investment company called Trilogy (Trilogy Retail Holdings Inc. and Trilogy Investments L.P) offered to “buy all company stock its joint actors do not currently own, for C$2.25 in cash per common share.”
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Canada – the resurgence of romance books
“TikTok has affected the way people read, what they read, and how book covers are...
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TNPS on LinkedIn – Round-Up #3
With so much publishing industry news and debate, there’s never time for TNPS to cover it all. But...
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Buchmesse Guest of Honour Canada unlikely to attend in-person as for the second year Frankfurt plays dice with the publishing industry
The growing evidence, one and a half years into the Pandemic, is that publishers prosper just fine...
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Consumers are evolving: Canada’s Indigo will be focusing all its attention on digital investment. A lesson for book retailers everywhere
(CEO Heather Reisman’s digital focus) is in stark contrast to book retailers in other...
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Parallel Paths: Kobo Plus Canada subscription service marks first year, confirms imminent Portugal launch as ViacomCBS tops 42 million global subscribers
The bigger picture here is the slow but inexorable spread of the subscription model across the...
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There’s a new kid on the digital books retail and subscription streaming block, but can Legible live up to its own hype?
True global accessibility demands that the books are available where the consumers are and...
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Another nail in Screen Fatigue’s coffin as OverDrive clocks 430 million digital downloads in 2020
Print of course remains king, although bricks & mortar booksellers face existential challenges...
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Is a $500 million Wattpad sale imminent?
While Wattpad isn’t currently run as a commercial enterprise the potential, and the global...
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PRH Canada devolves RH and Knopf in move that weakens the argument against the Penguin Random House acquisition of Simon & Schuster
The move is not related to the Simon & Schuster buyout, and was initially planned for the...
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Start The Day Global: Bangladesh, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Malaysia and Thailand
Whimsical publishing stories from around the world. Today five post excerpts from Thailand,...
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