Do publishers get unfair rap for unknown Canadian authors?
Posted by: Laurie McBurney on Thursday, February 19, 2009 Publishers get the blame for Canadians’ lack of awareness of their home-grown authors. But isn’t part of the problem schools that teach foreign books and media that slavishly follow American trends? BY MARC COT Globe and Mail February 13, 2009 At a time when sales are declining everywhere, the Canadian book market is the envy of other countries. Canadian book sales are up, according to BookNet, which tracks them in approximately 75 per cent of our market. In New York and London, lists and imprints have been trimmed or eliminated and there have been layoffs, but Canadian publishers are not cutting back their lists and staff. So why is it, when books are selling better than ever, that the perception is that Canadian publishers are getting worse at selling Canadian-authored titles? (See James Adams’s feature article in last Saturday’s Globe and Mail, “Publish, And Your Book Will Probably Perish.”) If Canadian-authored titles are se
