In this month’s podcast, we’re sharing some mid-year market data from an excerpt of the Tech Forum presentation, Ready, set, go: Pre-fall sales trends and data-driven insights.

Links:

- Ready, set, go: Pre-fall sales trends and data-driven insights: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/ready-set-go-pre-fall-sales-trends-and-data-driven-insights/

- BookNet eNews weekly newsletter: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/newsletter-sign-up#enews

- BookNet blog: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog

- Customer satisfaction survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LX7DD55

This month we talked with Evelyn Elgie, the assistant publisher at Inanna Publications about what it’s like to run a feminist press in today’s landscape, the challenges facing small presses, and why prioritizing marginalized voices and building community is so important to upholding the values of the company.

This month’s episode features a conversation with Sophie Wu, a Master's candidate in Digital Humanities at McGill University, about AI and one of its potential applications in the publishing industry: storytelling analysis.

In this month’s podcast episode, we dive into the data on Canadian book borrowers, their library visitorship, book borrowing by format, and more.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/10/1/podcast-libraries-and-canadian-readers

Mélanie Ritchot joins us this episode to talk about the Indigenous Editors Circle and how it's influenced her approach to editing. Whether you're an editor, a publisher, or just interested in how the industry is evolving to better support Indigenous voices, this episode is for you.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/6/24/podcast-editing-indigenous-voices-with-care

This month’s podcast episode is a continuation of the conversation from the Tech Forum webinar: Canadian book publishing: Insights from the latest salary survey. Saffron Beckwith, President at Ampersand Inc., joins us to chat about pay equity, inclusion, and more.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/5/27/podcast-beyond-the-survey-more-on-salary-equity-in-the-book-industry

This month we’re talking with Chandler Jolliffe, owner of Cedar Canoe Books in Huntsville, who pioneered the idea of a Canadian flag bookmark as a way to easily identify which books in his store were Canadian-authored.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/4/29/canadian-bookmark-project

In this podcast episode, we talk to Cassie Smyth about AI integration into audiobooks, accessible audiobooks, supporting the Canadian audiobook ecosystem, and more.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/3/25/podcast-canadian-audiobooks-in-2025

Listen to a sneak peek of BookNet Canada’s upcoming research reports, The Canadian Book Market and The Canadian Book Consumer.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/2/25/a-research-sneak-peek

In this podcast episode, we share some snippets from last year’s Tech Forum sessions on AI in the book industry.

Find the transcript and relevant links here: https://www.booknetcanada.ca/blog/2025/1/28/podcast-ai-in-the-book-industry