This webinar will use the most up-to-date data to reveal the emerging trends in the types of books Canadians are buying. Are Canadians still into Comics & Graphic Novels? What about Travel and Romance? BookNet Canada SalesData & LIbraryData team, Lily Dwyer and Kalpna Patel, dig deep into the data to show you the book subjects on the move.
Link to video and transcript: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/trending-now-book-subjects-on-the-move-in-the-canadian-market/
Presented by BookNet Canada on February 27, 2024 with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
2. Scope + Methodology
● Analysis based on data collected from our SalesData retailer
aggregation service
● Sales of print books, measured in units sold
● Comparison of sales in the All Markets for 2023 over 2022, mostly
● Subject categories are based on BISAC codes, mostly
● Market Share and Bestseller Reports are run through the
SalesData tool, which all subscribers can access
3. 2023 At a Glance
Print Market Sales
-9%
2023 over 2022
4. 2023 At a Glance
Fiction
-4%
Non-Fiction
-11%
Juvenile
-10%
Young Adult
-16%
6. National Travel Survey
● Trips taken by Canadian residents
increased by 43% over the same quarter
in 2022
● Domestic travel higher than pre-pandemic
levels, accounting for 88% of all travel
● Travel to the US increased by 252% over
the same period in 2022, matching
pre-pandemic levels (6 million trips in
2019)
● Overseas travel
remains below
pre-pandemic levels
In the first quarter of 2023:
47. JUVENILE FICTION
Indigeniety in BISAC Subject Headings
JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle
Island
JUVENILE FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Native American
JUVENILE FICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
JUVENILE FICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island / Teachings
JUVENILE FICTION / Native American
48. YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Indigeniety in BISAC Subject Headings
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Indigenous
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Native American
49. JUVENILE NON-FICTION
Indigeniety in BISAC Subject Headings
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island / Teachings &
Traditions
JUVENILE NONFICTION / Native American
50. YOUNG ADULT NON- FICTION
Indigeniety in BISAC Subject Headings
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Indigenous
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Native American
51. ADULT NON-FICTION
Indigeniety in BISAC Subject Headings
ART / Indigenous Art of the Americas
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous
COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Indigenous Food of the Americas
DRAMA / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indigenous Languages of the Americas
HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
LAW / Indigenous Law
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
POETRY / American / Native American
POETRY / Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island
RELIGION / Indigenous, Folk & Tribal
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies