INDEX // mb Ideas on Publishing Books in Canada (and other attempts to write good)

Canadian Book Publishing

For My American Friends Who May Not Have Caught This

Lisa Gabriele wants some VC money to market her book.
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Annick Press Has a New(ish) Website

I just noticed Annick Press has a new website design — I don’t visit them often so I am not sure how recent the update is but I think it is fantastic and is a great reflection of what they are about.

As more houses — particularly the smaller ones — redo their sites, are they [...]

Is It Still Rare For Self-Published Books To Get Mainstream Reviews?

Last November I spotted a review at the National Post for Wanda St. Hilaire’s The Cuban Chronicles: A True Tale of Rascals, Rogues and Romance. A travel memoir about being seduced by Latin men isn’t my thing but there was one curious thing about it that made me pay attention — it was self-published. At [...]

Needed: Collaborative Planning in Supply Chain

Two perspectives below that reminded me how far apart bookstores’ and publishers’ interests are:

“Retailers need to see book returns as failures. Returning for credit is not an opportunity.” Track. Analyze. Improve.
“Publishers need to stop playing the pimp.” They are not well positioned to tell retailers how much stock they need where and when.

These bon-mots were [...]

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