Thank you for coming to the site and reading the blog entries and taking a look at our catalogue, albeit small, since the company is so new. I wanted to post a few updates as to what is happening currently and for the rest of 2025.
In Canada, the state of the publishing industry is always the question on the minds of those deeply involved as there tends to be an air of uncertainty, especially since the digital age has, so heavily, played a role in it. This role though, may be the one aspect that can help protect the industry and provide a healthier profit margin for publishers as well as larger royalties for authors.
Three months ago, the University of Toronto Press (UTP) reported that it is facing significant financial issues because of lack of space at its three storage locations in Ontario as well as the need to maintain these spaces.
The book publishing industry has gone through a number of changes over the last 40 years and while some readers or people in that industry may feel that there is a decline in revenues, there is one stat that says otherwise.
Of the 4,270 Canadians polled in the Canadian Book Consumer survey for 2023, more Canadians were buying books over the $50 mark than the previous year.
Fixed book pricing (FBP) has been a topic only sparingly on the agenda of some politicians in Canada. Quebec’s Minister of Culture tabled a provincial law back in 2013 for a FBP. Meant to bolster the province’s book industry, it used the model from France which made it illegal to discount a book more than 5% off the cover price.
