Vol. 72/No. 45      November 17, 2008

“Students are asking about the economy, and I don’t know what to say. These books might help me answer their questions,” said a high school teacher browsing at the Pathfinder Books table during the British Columbia Social Studies Teachers Association conference in Port Coquitlam on October 24.

Pathfinder sales volunteers in Canada have successfully presented titles addressing the financial workings of capitalism, such as issues of the magazine New International and its French counterpart Nouvelle Internationale, to bookstore buyers and librarians recently, as part of their campaign.

A bookstore in Montreal close to the downtown French-language University of Quebec put in an order for the first time, choosing Nouvelle Internationale issues 5 and 7, as well as Thomas Sankara parle (Thomas Sankara Speaks) during a recent sales visit.

Toronto sales volunteers have followed up with visits to university professors who participated in the Humanities and Social Sciences academic conference held in Vancouver, British Columbia, this summer and who expressed interest in Pathfinder titles. They have also visited several southern Ontario librarians, eliciting orders for a substantial number of titles, including the Chinese edition of Our History Is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Chinese-Cuban Generals in the Cuban Revolution.

One librarian was interested in Pathfinder’s Russian-language titles, another wanted labor titles. The owner of a Toronto Farsi-language bookstore also welcomed a sales visit.

Toronto volunteers staffed Pathfinder’s booth at the Word on the Street outdoor book festival at the end of September and Montreal volunteers will staff Pathfinder’s booth at the Salon du livre, Montreal’s French-language book fair, in November.  
 
 
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