PUB 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Cultural Protectionism, Mcclelland & Stewart, Canadian Literature

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Publishing Program
• Course: PUB 350
• Professor: Jamie Broadhurst

Document Summary

Published in magazine called the walrus: magazine has circulation of about 100,00 while new york times circulation reaches about 3 million. Largest english language canadian publisher was sold and it was supposed to be illegal but it wasn"t. Fundamental argument put forward that we put laws into place in 1970"s to protect. Every decade since we"ve seen slow erosion of those laws. Chart 7 (canadian owned and all other publishers: grey; books published for foreign authors, blue; books published and sold in canada sold by canadian firms. Chart 6: light blue; canadian authored publishers and profit stays in canada, dark blue; canadian publishers published by multi-national firms in canada (9%) If all we"ve achieved is 4% market share, we have not achieved much. Chart 5: multinational branch owns a lot more than canadian (obviously, how can canadian firms compete, alleviate the blockbuster effect. If you"re a published writer in canada, you can apply for grants.