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Counting Canada's bookworms

Counting Canadian readers, one book at a time. The first ever National Book Count has been tallied and today the numbers were released. In just one week, Canadians bought 1,110,568 books and borrowed 1,604,378 books from their public libraries. We spoke with Jamie Broadhurst, the vice president of Marketing for Raincoast Books, and a member of the TD National Reading Campaign which conducted the book count..

For more information, visit the TD National Reading Campaign website.