An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Montreal

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one’s from BookNetter Tim Middleton.

An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Winnipeg

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one’s from editor, author, designer, and book marketer S.M. Beiko.

An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Halifax

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one’s from Whitney Moran, editor at Nimbus Publishing.

An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Vancouver

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one’s from BitLit’s Mary Alice Elcock.

An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Calgary

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one is from Kelsey Attard, Managing Editor at Freehand Books.

An Authors for Indies Itinerary: Toronto

This Saturday, May 2 is Authors for Indies Day. At indie bookstores across Canada, authors will be volunteering as guest booksellers, and that’s just the beginning of the bookish fun in store.

To help get you ready, we’ve got suggested itineraries and highlights for six major cities, written by local booklovers just for you. This one’s from BookNetter Lauren Stewart.

15 memorable on-screen indie bookstores

From Harry Potter’s teetering bookshelves to Gone Girl’s scintillating stacks, we love us some on-screen (and off-screen) indie bookstores.

In honour of Authors for Indies Day coming up on May 2, our resident Lady of Lists, Lauren Stewart, put together a compilation of 15 memorable on-screen indie bookstores for Buzzfeed, along with a handy infographic with real-life settings and filming locations.

Are Canadians still reading?

At this year’s Tech Forum, Kevin Ashton presented on new technology and “How to Survive the Ebookalypse.” He began by saying, “We live in an age of paranoia about reading and publishing, but that’s actually not a new thing.” Undeniably, the industry is in state of transition and print sales are down. But much like the invention of the paperback format, technology will not destroy reading. Instead, Ashton argues, “Technology is feeding literacy and literacy is causing a need for new technology.”