Research & Analysis
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To help celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary, we’re revisiting a study that was initially conducted in 2012 to see how Canadian book buyers’ perceptions and attitudes towards Canadian authors and subject matter had changed in the last five years.
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Continuing our analysis of bestselling books in Canada’s provinces and territories, we compare sports books in Manitoba and PEI alongside biographies in Yukon and Saskatchewan.
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Continuing our series of regional bestsellers, we’ve paired up some provinces and territories to see what’s selling in each, what’s different, and what’s the same.
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You may have seen our list of the 150 bestselling Canadian-authored books from the past decade. We wanted to go a bit further in our exploration and see what was selling in each region of our fine country.
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But who exactly is the Canadian podcast listener? Are they audiobook listeners, too? We’ve pulled together some statistics to satisfy your curiosity.
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Get ready for some summer lovin’ with the fifth instalment of our Deep Dive series! We’ve bundled up some statistics on the Romance Book Buyer to help you identify who they are, what their habits are, online and off, and where they buy their books.
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We recently looked at LGBT book sales in another blog post, including how those titles are being classified. It made us think about the difference between LGBT subject codes and keywords. Thus began our quest to gain insight into keyword usage.
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The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2016 looks at the size, scope, and production processes of the digital publishing market in Canada.
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In the fourth instalment of our Deep Dive series we’ve whipped up some stats on the Cookbook buyer. We want to help you identify who these buyers are, what their habits are, online and off, and where they’re buying their books.
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The number of LGBT books in the Canadian marketplace tells an interesting and important story. Sales are up while the number of LGBT titles are down.