“You’d say you were from Windsor, and you could see the recoil,” Mr. Wells, a long-time Windsor resident, said. While location seemed to be one strike against Mr. Wells, Canadian publishing has always been risky, as historian Roy MacSkimming reveals in his book about the industry, The Perilous Trade. “Ours tend to be somewhat better, depending on the year.”Despite all of the challenges roiling the industry, Biblioasis is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For their part, Biblioasis sales have been between $900,000 and $1.25-million per year since 2019-20, according to Mr. Wells. “The level of demoralization among Canadian publishing workers is extreme,” Kwame Scott Fraser, the outgoing publisher of Dundurn Press, recently observed.

Source: International New York Times June 04, 2024 00:09 UTC