Indie retailer Book City has stated on Twitter that its location at 1430 Yonge St. did ... Read More »
February 17, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling
Ian Donker, general manager of the Toronto indie bookseller Book City, has confirmed that the small chain's Yonge St. and St. Clair Ave. location was affected by a six-alarm fire at the nearby Badminton & ... Read More »
February 15, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling
A fire-prevention officer has told a used-book retailer in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with thousands of volumes in stock that "it doesn't take forever to remove books." John Doull of Doull's Books was ordered by the ... Read More »
February 10, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling
Vancouver indie Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks is set to close down at the end of February after nearly 20 years of bookselling and events. Frequented by culinary giants like Gordon Ramsay and Anthony Bourdain, the ... Read More »
January 17, 2017 | Filed under: Bookselling
Jim Munro‚ co-founder of the iconic Victoria, B.C., bookstore Munro's Books, died suddenly on Nov. 21 among family at home. He was 87. Munro established his eponymous store in 1963 with his then-wife, CanLit legend ... Read More »
November 23, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling
A new entry in the Harry Potter series helped bolster second-quarter revenue for Indigo Books & Music, offsetting a continued drop in colouring-book sales. Revenue for Indigo's most recent quarter, ended Oct. 1, was $217 million, up ... Read More »
November 10, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling
When a boy from the Toronto suburbs grows up to write A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade (University of Toronto Press), one might expect the book to be filled ... Read More »
November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Book culture, Bookselling
In an era when physical book retailers are fewer and far between, Martha Sharpe has come up with a radical idea. Flying Books is a bookstore within another store: a small, expertly curated rotating selection ... Read More »
October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling
It's always something of a challenge to define the work of Anne Carson, and with her new collection, Float (published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart), the Canadian-born poet makes even the conventions of the ... Read More »
October 3, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling
Arguably, no publisher in the world has the iconic cachet of Penguin, the legendary British house founded by Sir Allen Lane in 1935. Lane’s goal was to produce affordable mass-market paperbacks that were of higher ... Read More »
September 7, 2016 | Filed under: Bookselling
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