BookNet blog
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Get your books in front of Canadian gift buyers! Figure out where Canadians are looking for gifts, what kinds of advertising they notice, and where they’re likely to make their purchases with this handy infographic.
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After months and months of behind-the-scenes coding, testing, and debugging comes a new slicker, sleeker, and more responsive version of the site you love.
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The Literary Review of Canada (LRC) has released their list of the 25 Most Influential Books published in Canada. But does influence necessarily mean sales? We data heads investigate.
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To aid all you aspirational NaNoWriMo participants, we’ve put together a list of the most popular writing reference books in the last 10 years.
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Two ONIX converters are going to be retired at the end of the year. We walk you through the changes.
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Is your HTML squeaky clean and semantic? Can you cascade your style sheets with grace and elegance? At ebookcraft 2017, we want to put your skills to the test with a competition that separates the ebook design masters from the wannabes.
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Arts delegates from across the country and Canadian Arts Coalition members met with MPs and other representatives on #ArtsDay 2016 to talk about the arts and Canadian digital culture.
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We talked to Sarah MacLachlan, President and Publisher of House of Anansi, and Meghan MacDonald, Director of Digital Product Development and Consumer Insights at Penguin Random House Canada, to learn more about what made these two publishers enter the brick-and-mortar bookstore business.
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In this thought-provoking podcast we hear from Teresa Elsey, Digital Managing Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, about the challenges and questions that arise when books turn into software and ebooks don’t go away after you’ve made them.
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Everyone’s favourite chubby, little cubby bear turns 90 this month. To celebrate Winnie-the-Pooh’s birthday, we decided to see which books have sold the most copies in Canada.