Daily Xtra's Jeremy Hainsworth notes the end of an era in Vancouver.

Vancouver’s iconic gay bookstore Little Sister’s has been sold ( Read more... )

News of the Glad Day Bookshop's impending move to Church Street has spread widely, to Canada's Quill & Quire and to international sites like Gay Star News and New Now Next. I first learned of this from Daily Xtra.

Glad Day Bookshop is moving from a cramped, albeit charming, second-floor on Yonge Street to a massive ground-floor in Toronto’s Church ( Read more... )

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Daily Xtra's Jeremy Willard reports on Glad Day's planned move to Church Street.

[Glad Day's owners have looked at a variety of locations, but one option stands out: a rental spot on Church Street (they can’t reveal the precise location until the deal is finalized) which, according to Erickson, seems the most feasible choice ( Read more... )

NOW Toronto's Susan G. Cole looks at the rationale for Glad Day's move.

Business experts will tell you that it’s a bad idea to let people know your enterprise is in financial trouble. Suppliers tend to flee, and customers have a habit of staying away ( Read more... )

Lisa Cumming's Torontoist article "Why is Toronto’s Oldest Bookstore Leaving Yonge Street?" let me know of something unexpected. I only hope this move is workable.

It has been a staple of Toronto for decades, its pink-and-purple storefront and giant rainbow flag waving over Yonge. Now, thirty-five years since opening its second-floor Yonge and ( Read more... )

Karen Angel's Bloomberg BusinessWeek article is thought-provoking. Is this an accurate depiction of the situation facing writers? (Also: How do you become a midlist author in the first place?)

For Greg White, the last straw came when his publisher forgot to ship copies of his book to the launch party last October. It was just one in a series of ( Read more... )

In "The bookstore makes a comeback", the Toronto Star's Francine Kopun looks at Indigo, Canada's dominant bookstore. With growing sales of books among young people and an apparently successful reorientation as a cultural department store, Indigo's future seems assured.

After years spent battling a declining book market and defying prophecies of ( Read more... )

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