The State of Bookselling in Canada 2020
Consumer shopping at independent bookstores Let’s look at inventory and sales for books in the Canadian English-language trade book market as reported to BNC SalesData, the national sales tracking service. Survey respondents account for approximately 45% of the sales in the independent bookstore channel in 2019 and 2020. Comparing the overall market (All) with independent stores in 2020 we can see the impact of COVID-19 related retail closures in spring 2020 with sales in the independent bookstore channel having dropped significantly in April 2020 compared to those in the overall market. Sales had a small peak in the summer of 2020, in July for the All market and August for the independent bookstores, before the large Christmas peak in December. Note: Sales for the All and Independent Markets are plotted on different scales. Sales in 2020 by channel
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