Book industry state of the nation 2025 - Tech Forum 2025
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BookNet Canada’s President and CEO Lauren Stewart shares an in-depth presentation of the most recent data on Canadian book buyers, readers, and consumers. Link to presentation recording and transcript: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/book-industry-state-of-the-nation-2025/ Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2025, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Book industry state of the nation 2025 - Tech Forum 2025
- 1. Book Industry State of The Nation Lauren Stewart June 25, 2025
- 3. Book Industry State of The Nation Lauren Stewart June 25, 2025
- 4. Methodology
- 5. Methodology
- 6. Since the Last Time We Met…
- 8. GST Holiday: Definitions - C-78 An Act respecting temporary cost of living relief (affordability) - Short title: Tax Break for All Canadians Act - Announced November 21, passed in the House November 28, Royal Assent December 12 - Dates: December 14, 2024 - February 15, 2025 inclusive - Major product types tracked by BookNet Canada’s SalesData: - Physical books - Jigsaw puzzles - Children's toys - Items must be reported using ISBNs and have corresponding bibliographic data in our database
- 9. GST Holiday: A Polycrisis - Challenging to isolate the impact of the GST holiday due to a number of additional factors: - Canada Post strike; BC and Montreal port strikes - Overlap with pre-Christmas sales window - Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend was 5 days later this year, further compressing the holiday shopping window to 4 vs. 5 weeks - Consumer hesitancy recoiling from the pandemic "revenge spend" that was observed starting in 2021 - Lack of dominant major release driving people to bookstores - Same period last year: release of Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros - Notable exclusion of digital formats from the holiday’s eligible product categories: unknown impact of consumer purchasing behaviour
- 10. GST Holiday: A Polycrisis https://thoughtleadership.rbc.com/rbc-consumer-spending-tracker/
- 11. GST Holiday: Tracking Sales
- 13. Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/04/canadian-survey-of-consumer-expectations-first-quarter-of-2025/
- 14. Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/04/canadian-survey-of-consumer-expectations-first-quarter-of-2025/
- 15. Canadian Book Consumers’ Search Behaviour books by Canadian authors/illustrators books about Canada or regions within Canada books about a group or culture written by people from that group or culture https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-book-consumer-2024
- 16. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update - Canadian Contributors
- 17. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update - Canadian Contributors
- 18. Canadian Book Market 2024: Overview https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/research/2025/3/31/the-canadian-book- market-2024
- 19. Frontlist and Backlist YoY
- 20. Print Market: Unit Sales (millions)
- 21. Print Market: Unit Sales; YoY Change
- 22. Print Market: Unit Sales by Genre; YoY Change
- 23. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/96842-print-book-sales -saw-a-small-sales-increase-in-2024.html Print Market: Unit Sales by Genre; USA and Canada
- 24. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 25. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 26. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 27. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 28. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 29. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 30. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 31. Print Market: 2025 Partial-Year Update
- 32. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Overall Reading https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 33. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Top Weekly Activities 1. Watching videos/TV/movies (90%) 2. Cooking (88%) 3. Browsing social media/web (87%) 4. Listening to music (84%) 5. Spending time with family (70%) 6. Shopping (66%) 7. Exercising/working out (65%) 8. Reading or listening to books (52%) 9. Listening to radio shows (49%) 10. Playing video games (41%) https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 34. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Top Daily Activities 1. Browsing social media/web (78%) 2. Watching videos/TV/movies (76%) 3. Cooking (71%) 4. Listening to music (67%) 5. Spending time with family (49%) 6. Exercising/working out (38%) 7. Reading or listening to books (34%) 8. Listening to radio shows (33%) 9. Playing video games (26%) 10. Listening to podcasts (20%) https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 35. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Leisure Spending https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 36. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Book Spending https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 37. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Budgeting https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 38. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Affordability https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 39. Canadian Book Market 2024: Percent Increase of Median List Prices by Format from 2020 to 2024 https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/research/2025/6/6/discounts-data-amp- decisions-navigating-hesitant-consumer-spending
- 40. 85%
- 41. Weathering Consumer Spending Hesitancy https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/research/2025/6/6/discounts-data-amp-decisions-navi gating-hesitant-consumer-spending
- 42. Canadian Leisure & Reading 2024: Sustainability https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 43. Canadian Leisure & Reading: Sustainability https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-leisure-and-reading-study-2024
- 44. Canadian Book Consumer 2024: Channels https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-book-consumer-2024
- 45. https://www.booknetcanada.ca/canadian-book-consumer-2024 Canadian Book Consumer 2024: Formats
- 46. In Your Words: Industry Trendspotting 1. Health & longevity of independent Canadian businesses
- 47. In Your Words: Industry Trendspotting 1. Health of independent businesses 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 48. In Your Words: Industry Trendspotting 1. Health of independent businesses 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 3. Printing
- 49. In Your Words: Industry Trendspotting 1. Health of independent businesses 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 3. Printing 4. Tariffs
- 50. In Your Words: Industry Trendspotting 1. Health of independent businesses 2. Artificial Intelligence (AI) 3. Printing 4. Tariffs 5. Pricing
- 53. Noah Genner September 11, 1971 - August 27, 2024 Jacqueline Fry August 4, 1967 - April 18, 2025