It’s been a fantastic summer for hiking in the Canadian Rockies, with one of the most beautiful falls on record extending the season into October. So it was a timely release for the new edition of our Canadian Rockies Trail Guide this past May. The book has been a perennial bestseller for us, and with all the changes to the new edition, sales have been strong throughout the summer. Even so, it’s great to see the new edition on a bestseller list. The list is compiled by Read Alberta and Bookmanager, a point-of-sale provider for independent bookstores across Canada. The company uses national sales data to rank books published in Alberta. Due to the nature of the list, it doesn’t include sales made to many vendors, including MEC, outdoor retailers, hotels and lodges, and gift stores, which make up the vast majority of this book’s sales (over 90%). The links are here:
June 2022 (CRTG ranked 4th)
July 2022 (CRTG ranked 2nd)
August 2022 (CRTG ranked 6th)
September 2022 (CRTG ranked 5th)
About Read Alberta
The Alberta Bestsellers list is compiled by Read Alberta through data collected by Book Manager. Read Alberta celebrates readers, writers and authors, journalists, editors and photographers, publishers, libraries, and all of the people who tell Alberta’s stories. The organization is a hub where Alberta’s readers, authors, publishers, booksellers, libraries, and educators can connect, support, and learn more about one another. It features Alberta-published books and magazines in celebration of the distinct, diverse voices coming out of our own province, amidst a shared backdrop of prairie fields, wind-swept badlands, boreal forest, rolling foothills, and majestic mountains.