Bulletins From the Book Trade: The Richmond Chapters Anti-Reader Fin

Gordon Lockheed finds a telling example of Chapters/Indigo’s new merchandising strategy in the suburbs of Vancouver…

What’s Wrong in the Book Trade?

Gordon Lockheed continues his investigation of book publishing and book selling in Canada. (Other articles in the series are lodged in our BP&BS topic category)

General Dies in Bed, or, Jack Stoddart’s Legacy

Gordon Lockheed outlines the implications of the collapse of Stoddart and General Distribution Services…(there are five other articles on the crisis in Canadian publishing in the BP&BS archive)

Why Canadian Novels Aren’t Selling Anymore

Brian Fawcett taps one of his inside sources for an explanation to why the sales of Canadian-authored novels have died.

Indigo Blues

Frank Davis rides again, this time to explain why
the Chapters/Indigo experiment doesn’t work, and to hint at alternatives

Fungibility and Bookselling

Frank Davis speculates on the possible effect a strange economic fetish has on the way the selling of books is currently being mishandled.

Bookselling and Book Publishing in Canada, an emergency report

Gordon Lockheed, with notes from Frank Davis, weighs in with the first of a series of reports on the conditions for writing, publishing and reading books in Canada.

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