Jim Munro, owner of Munro Books in Victoria B.C. has decided to give his book store business to 4 employees to run when he retires in 2 months. He's been a bookseller for 50 years and has survived the advent of Chapters and online sales/e-books. His view was that without his staff, his book store wouldn't have survived all these years ( Read more... )

Reading this made me chortle with glee. It also made me wish that Twitter existed when I was a bookstore clerk back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.


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Have I ever ranted about how much I HATE department store-like book shops? ARRRRGGGGHHHH! ( Rant under cut )