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  • "All the Good Stuff [is] Inevitable" Ray Robertson on First Sentences, Epigraphs, & Bookstore Love
    "All the Good Stuff [is] Inevitable" Ray Robertson on First Sentences, Epigraphs, & Bookstore Love
    August 04, 2022

    "All the Good Stuff [is] Inevitable" Ray Robertson on First Sentences, Epigraphs, & Bookstore Love

    There have been a lot of unexpected casualties of the pandemic. For Phil Cooper, the protagonist of acclaimed writer Ray Robertson's newest novel Estates Large and Small (Biblioasis), who has battled ...

  • Celebrate Indie Bookstores on April 24: 3 Ontario Booksellers Tell Us What They Love About Their Jobs & Shops
    Celebrate Indie Bookstores on April 24: 3 Ontario Booksellers Tell Us What They Love About Their Jobs & Shops
    April 23, 2021

    Celebrate Indie Bookstores on April 24: 3 Ontario Booksellers Tell Us What They Love About Their Jobs & Shops

    This Saturday, April 24, the Canadian Independent Booksellers Association is celebrating Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD), an annual love-in for the magical small stores that connect readers ...

  • Your Community, Your Bookstore
    Your Community, Your Bookstore
    June 02, 2020

    Your Community, Your Bookstore

    During the COVID–19 pandemic, independent bookstores across the country remain open, serving their communities by providing phone and online ordering, safe pickup or delivery, or safe browsing where ...

  • Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
    Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore
    April 06, 2017

    Guest Column - So I Opened a Bookstore

    So I opened a bookstore.Yes, yes, I know – “in this day and age?” “Bookstores are going under!” “What about digital books?” “No one reads paper books anymore!”But I had been reading ...

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