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#Bookselllers, in this blog post, we are sharing three pieces of advice, and plenty of data, that will help you prepare for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

What’s been the impact of COVID-19 on book buying in the first half of 2021? Find out with results from the Canadian Book Consumer survey, a quarterly survey of Canadian readers conducted by BookNet Canada. #Publishing #CanadianPublishing #BookNetResearch

A great distillation of how libraries can help surface diverse books and authors and why it's important.

Read our new, free study about the health of Canadian independent bookstores: https://www.booknetcanada.ca//the-state-of-independent-boo

Join us on Oct. 7 at 2 pm ET for a #TechForum session in which #metadata professionals from across #publishing will discuss all things metadata. Listen in as they talk about their day-to-day experiences, industry trends, and their predictions for what’s to come. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us//register/WN_y8GsekPwRiSrdwGfqlpLNQ

Get to know Turtle's Back Publishing, a division of the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition in this new instalment of 5 questions with. https://www.booknetcanada.ca//5-questions-with-turtles-bac

For this instalment of our 5 questions with blog series, we interviewed Hilary Atleo from Iron Dog Books, an Indigenous-owned bookshop and booktruck dedicated to bringing low cost reading to Slilwta, Swxwú7mesh and xmkym territories (metro Vancouver).

In this month's podcast episode, LibraryData team members, Hannah Johnston and Monique Mongeon share some data about Canadian library circulation stats, genre trends, and more. https://www.booknetcanada.ca//podcast-canadian-library-mon

What are the health benefits of reading? What happens to our brain when we read print books vs. ebooks? All these answers and more in this Book Riot article. https://bookriot.com/whats-the-science-behind-reading

Whether or not you have yet established a plan for the holiday shopping season, the resources and data included in this blog post will help you prepare for the busiest time of the year and, ultimately, achieve your bookselling goals.

We wanted to celebrate the wide offerings of Canadian literature by sharing with the public the best-selling print books by Canadian authors in 2020. Visit our website for a detailed list and exact rankings of all the titles featured in this poster. https://www.booknetcanada.ca//bestselling-canadian-books-i