Publishers are working overtime to address the constantly changing reality of a world retreating from public interaction. International rights fairs including the London Book Fair – which attracts more than 25,000 publishing professionals to the United Kingdom each year – and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair have been cancelled, while a major literary conference in Texas went ahead with an estimated 50-per-cent exhibitor attendance. Author tours have been cancelled.
“The financial loss [from the author tours] is actually the most difficult,” she says. “All of the investment in the author travel and hotels and advertising that we’ve taken out in festival programs. That’s all lost.”Penguin Random House Canada has cancelled all author tours until mid-April, and a number of Canadian festivals including the Growing Room Festival in Vancouver and VerseFest in Ottawa have been cancelled, though Versefest hopes to reschedule in the fall.
, published by Canadian independent House of Anansi. She had events scheduled in Colorado, Montana and Washington state, including a conference to talk to booksellers. “Certainly I will be losing out in terms of sales,” she says of her cancelled tour. The postponement of Canada Reads is also a blow to book sales. The week-long debate – taped before a live studio audience and broadcast on CBC radio and television – was scheduled to air from March 16 to 19. Sales for the winning book increase an average of 434 per cent, according to BookNet Canada statistics covering 2011 to 2017.
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