TORONTO—  In a new BookNet Canada survey, consumers say that in 2023 their visits both to physical and digital booksellers increased. Purchases: “Similar to past years,” the staff at BookNet writes, the majority of book purchases that Canadians said they made were print, with 53 percent in paperback and 25 percent in hardcover. “During a given month in 2023,” BookNet’s staff writes, “79 percent of Canadian book buyers visited a bookstore online, up from 73 percent in 2022. Another 70 percent of Canadian book buyers [said they] visited a bookstore in person, up from 64 percent in 2022.”“In 2023, 14 percent of books purchases by book buyers,” according to respondents, “were ebooks and 4 percent were audiobooks.”