Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada.

Under Ryerson's leadership, Canadian Methodists retook control of the Book Room in Toronto from the British Wesleyans and stocked it with cheap books ordered from New York. Methodists found themselves compelled to import their literature from one of two institutions: the British Wesleyans' London Book Room or the New York-based Methodist Book Concern run by the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) in the United States. If Canadian Methodists were willing to pay a denominational premium for the Concern's books, perhaps they were more like American Methodists in that respect. [Extracted from the article]