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Digital music: Don’t blame your public library
Unfortunately for the thousands of Canadians who borrow music from the library, the days of flipping through a library’s CD collection could be numbered. In 2007, the Toronto Public Library saw music checkouts decline by seven per cent, while the Winnipeg Public Library saw its numbers drop by five per cent. The reason? More people are finding music online.
Like retail music stores, which saw...
Kathleen Edwards: Lyrics to empower
After years of performing in clubs and concert venues, you’d think Canadian folk singer Kathleen Edwards would have her live performance down to a science. On January 27, she sang the national anthem at the NHL All-Star Game, and everything she’d previously learned went out the window.
“It was the most foreign thing I could have possibly done,” Edwards says, speaking to Inside...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored