The State of Bookselling in Canada 2020
COVID-19 governmental assistance programs
n=33 About a quarter of booksellers said they were indirectly supported by the Department of Canadian Heritage (DCH) Distribution Program (27%). Other assistance included landlords reducing rent and local tourism grants.
Perceptions of industry health In our past few industry surveys where we surveyed booksellers (fielded in 2019) and publishers (fielded in 2020), we asked respondents to rate the health of various segments of the book industry. When we asked publishers to rate the health of industry segments at the end of 2019, 15% of publishers rated bookstores as healthy and 40% of publishers rated the Canadian publishing industry as healthy. We found in our inaugural version of this survey that most booksellers had a positive outlook on their stores and bookstores at the end of 2018. About seven out of ten booksellers rated their bookstore as extremely or moderately healthy (74%) and about six in ten viewed bookstores in general as extremely or moderately
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