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Flash mob targets Windsor bookshop

(Photo: Cash Mob Windsor) Flash mob, meet the buy local movement. That's what happened at Juniper Used and Rare Books last Saturday, when more than 50 customers simultaneously descended on the Windsor, Ontario, bookshop. The ... Read More »

March 30, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling

Westmount Book Fair celebrates 20 years

By Natalie Samson

This Sunday, the Westmount Book Fair turns 20. Since 1992, Wilfrid de Freitas has brought together fellow antiquarian booksellers from Quebec and Ontario at Westmount's Selwyn House School to show off a number of gems ... Read More »

March 9, 2012 | Filed under: Book news, Events

Borders launches Borders.com (again)

By Scott MacDonald

Back in 2001, when the dot-com boom went bust, the U.S. bookstore chain Borders decided to get out of the online bookselling biz and scrapped Borders.com. Now, however, they seem to have thought better of ... Read More »

May 28, 2008 | Filed under: Bookselling

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