Upcoming author talk at the Toronto Public Library on Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman! 📆 July 7, 7 pm 📍Toronto Reference Library 🚪Beeton Hall, 1st Floor Learn more: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

Shop our 25% off sale! Support radical indie publishing today. 💪 Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/pr...

We're doing another book event at the Toronto Reference Library on July 7 at 7pm

Upcoming author talk at the Toronto Public Library on Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman! 📆 July 7, 7 pm 📍Toronto Reference Library 🚪Beeton Hall, 1st Floor Learn more: tpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

Out now! Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City by Cole Webber and Philip Zigman. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

Karen Dubinsky's Strangely, Friends is the winner of the 2026 Wilson Prize! @kdubin.bsky.social Learn more: wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2026-wi...

Celebrating queer, trans and Two-Spirit lives goes hand in hand with celebrating the history of Indigenous nations. To shine a light on these topics and promote broader access to our list, Between the Lines will be offering three giveaways on our Instagram. Learn more: btlbooks.com/blog/view/pr...

Book launch for Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City! Featuring @colewebber.bsky.social and Philip Zigman in conversation with Kevin Laforest. 🗓️ June 18, 2026 ⏱️ 6:30pm–8:30pm ET 📍 Queen Books, Toronto, ON 🔗 Register via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launc...

Spring is chilly this year but our schedules are heating up! Find us tabling at Constellation, the CUPE Ontario Convention, and the TCAF - The Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Learn more on our website's blog: btlbooks.com/blog/view/sp...

"They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work." New book days are the best days, especially when its the new Wages for Housework anthology out on @btlbooks.com and available in the US via @akpress.org. #wagesdue #wagesforhousework

Once again humbled by & grateful to Katsi'tsakwas Ellen Gabriel for having opened the course w/ the Ohén:ton Karihwatéhkwen & having spoken w/ the students about "When The Pine Needles Fall" (both her award-winning documentary & her best-selling book with @seancarleton.bsky.social @btlbooks.com) 🙏🏽✊🏽

We're so excited to publish FOR THE LONG HAUL: How to Stay in a Fight for a Better World, a guide to sustaining long-term activism by movement veteran @withmovements.bsky.social and with @btlbooks.com! The book comes out this September →→ ⁠ www.akpress.org/for-the-long...

An extremely generative and generous book, Chris Dixon’s For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World will be released by @akpress.org and @btlbooks.com later this year.

My book FOR THE LONG HAUL: HOW TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER WORLD is now available for pre-order! In the U.S., order from @akpress.org. In Canada, order from @btlbooks.com. It will be out in September! Find all the info at www.writingwithmovements.com/long-haul/

Read about what housing researchers, tenant lawyers, and radical thinkers are saying about Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City, out June 16 from @btlbooks.com btlbooks.com/book/renovic...

"Working for Nothing: A #WagesForHousework Anthology" edited by Louise Toupin 😍 btlbooks.com/book/wages-f... @btlbooks.com

Out now! Action-packed and beautifully illustrated, Blood on the Snow uncovers this little-known episode in labour history when workers divided resulted in tragedy. Learn more: btlbooks.com/book/blood-o... #GraphicHistory #ReesorSiding #NorthernOntario #Labour #Workers

May Day! Flash Sale ⚡30% off site wide sale celebrating this rad holiday. Learn more (and check out some books on labour & work): btlbooks.com/blog/view/ma...

Check out the May 1 sale @btlbooks.com and get 30% off your pre-order of Renoviction and Resistance in the Capitalist City

May Day! Flash Sale ⚡30% off site wide sale celebrating this rad holiday. Learn more (and check out some books on labour & work): btlbooks.com/blog/view/ma...

We're hiring a Finance Manager! Find the complete details here: btlbooks.com/blog/view/jo...

“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss. Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt

Jacinta Gonzalez, who will be speaking at our webinar, has been doing powerful work exposing the connections between the Trump regime and big tech. You can register for it here: www.concordia.ca/cuevents/art...

Data Activism in the Age of Trump Tuesday, April 28, 1:30pm (EST) / 12:30pm Winnipeg start time On Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Speakers: *Jacinta Gonzalez, MediaJustice *Munira Lokhandwala, LittleSis *Erin McElroy, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project *Petra Molnar, Refugee Law Lab

REGISTRATIONS are NOW OPEN for our upcoming webinar, Data Activism in the Age of Trump. REGISTER HERE: tinyurl.com/bdz7pxpc

Erin McElroy, one of the activists featured in our April 28 webinar, is cofounder of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, which mobilizes data to expose the scale of evictions in cities worldwide. You can register for the live event here: tinyurl.com/bdz7pxpc

We're hiring a Finance Manager! Find the complete details here: btlbooks.com/blog/view/jo...

Thank you to the @btlbooks.com team for shouting out the work of indie bookstores in the lead up to CIBD 2026 on April 25! You can read their blog post with a full list of blurbs about bookstores their community loves here: btlbooks.com/blog/view/ca...

Congratulations to @kdubin.bsky.social! Strangely, Friends is on the shortlist for the Canadian Historical Association’s Best (English-Language) Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize. Learn more about the book on our website: btlbooks.com/book/a-histo...

I highly recommend Shift Change, by Stephen Dale, published by @btlbooks.com, for a concise field trip through Hamilton's recent past. I also recommend the @jellybros.bsky.social for all your Hamilton and transit/urban/map-oriented poster needs!

SAVE THE DATE for our April 28th webinar, which will cover how activists are adapting their strategies in a context of rapid change. Registration link to follow.

Thanks to CBC Books for naming "Blood on the Snow: The Tragedy at Reesor Siding" by Jacques Poirier and Christian Quesnel one of their "must-read comics titles publishing this spring"! You can pre-order now at btlbooks.com/book/blood-o... www.cbc.ca/books/12-can... @christianquesnel.bsky.social

Independent Palestinian publishers suspect that Amazon Ads is blocking titles, limiting visibility and suppressing books on Palestine amid censorship concerns www.newarab.com/features/ama...

On this day in 1872, the Toronto Printers' Strike began. Workers were hoping to get a nine-hour workday. Three weeks after the strike began, a rally was attended by 10,000 supporters. While the strike failed, it did lead to a bill to legalize trade unions in Canada.

Read an excerpt from MOBILIZING DATA FOR JUSTICE: A GUIDE TO ACTIVISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE (@btlbooks.com) by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, and Kevin Walby. Find it right here on Open Book! #AmReading #Nonfiction #SocialJustice #Tech open-book.ca/News/Read-an...

Women's History Month is EVERY month! Check out these new books on women's lives and women's history. @ecwpress.bsky.social @dundurnpress.bsky.social @heritagehouse.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @boulderbooks.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Lists/Member... #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory

Kevin Walby and Chris Hurl discuss their new book, Mobilizing Data for Justice, on the Social Sleuth podcast.

Happy book birthday to Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age! Drawing on interviews with more than 50 data activists around the world, this book provides the inspiration that activists need for social justice struggles today. btlbooks.com/book/mobiliz...

Don't miss out! 20% off sitewide sale ends tonight. Explore some of our favourite feminist titles now: btlbooks.com/blog/view/fe...

Happy release day to Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology! Edited by Louise Toupin, this text includes essays by Silvia Federici, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and more. Learn more and order your copy today, for 20% off until March 12: lnkd.in/gVjvSTSH

Check out this excerpt from Working for Nothing: A Wages for Housework Anthology by Louise Toupin @btlbooks.com 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/03... #WomensMonth #CanLit

Join @peggynash.bsky.social and the Toronto Workers' History Project for this wonderful event next week! via Zoom btlbooks.com/events/view/...

Congratulations to @kdubin.bsky.social, finalist for the 2025 Wilson Prize! wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca/news/2025-wi...

On building feminist anti-war solidarity: a feminist futures reading list in honour of International Women's Day. btlbooks.com/blog/view/fe...

Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression “This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.” www.readthemaple.com/why-these-ir...

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books: Harvesting Freedom (by Gabriel Allahdua with Edward Dunsworth, @btlbooks.com) & Redundancies and Potentials (by @domsdickey.bsky.social, @neonhemlock.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky #bookstodon #BlackHistoryMonth #bookish #booklovers

What We Carry: Winter 2026 is here – a seasonal book list tracing stories of migration, movement, and ancestral memory. @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @btlbooks.com @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @mawenzihouse.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @houseofanansi.bsky.social 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/02...

"Feminism and Palestinian Liberation Go Hand in Hand" an excerpt by Nada Elia now out now in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/feminism-and... @haymarketbooks.org

A necessary report on the situation in Cuba right now as the US blockade continues; by @kdubin.bsky.social rabble.ca/politics/us-...

Very excited to announce that our book "Mobilizing Data for Justice" is now available for pre-order with @btlbooks.com. We interviewed a bunch of folks about how they engage with data in social justice struggles and we share some of their strategies here.