Halifax’s only independent adult bookstore is for sale, along with its Charlottetown counterpart. Bookmark is the longest running independent bookstore in Atlantic Canada. The news comes a year after the death of the stores’ founder and owner, Rodney Jones, at 66. His family—daughters Tarra Drevet and Charla Jones, and brother Larry Jones—has been running the […]
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Best Independent Bookstore
Gold Winner Bookmark Silver Winner Woozles Children’s Bookstore Bronze Winner John W. Doull Bookseller Entire big box bookstore chains are closing down in the States, and every second person on the bus is reading Fifty Shades of Grey on a Kindle, thinking they’re fooling us, and yet little Bookmark remains strong and steady, a throwback […]
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Best Independent Bookstore
Gold Winner Bookmark Silver Winner John W. Doull Bookseller Bronze Winner Woozles Children’s Bookstore “These people are heroes of humanity,” writes one Best of Halifax voter about Bookmark. “I love them and everything they do. Indie bookstores forever!” Indeed, Bookmark has excelled in keeping a broad range of stock in a relatively small space, and […]
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Best Independent Bookseller
Gold Winner Bookmark Silver Winner John W. Doull Bookseller Bronze Winner Woozles “We keep doing what we do well, which is carry interesting books,” says Bookmark’s manager and book buyer, Mike Hamm. Bookmark has defied the trend of disappearing independent book stores by providing impeccable service, keeping on top of new releases and keeping unusually […]
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The Shop talk guided tour: Spring Garden Road
Without question, the Spring Garden Road area is the healthiest retail district in Atlantic Canada, forever recreating and transforming itself in interesting and positive ways. And right now, there’s more construction going on than ever before: Framed on the north by the pricey Trillium condo building, which will be a sure incentive for even more […]
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Best Independent Bookseller
In an era of Kindles, iPads and other e-readers, purchasing old-fashioned paper and cloth books from your local bookstore becomes more than a pastime, it’s a political statement supporting a way of life. And as convenient as we’re sure those e-readers can be, there’s nothing like having a book in your hand for ease of […]
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Bookmark and Woozles win national bookseller awards
Congratulations to Bookmark II (5686 Spring Garden Road, 423-0419)—their original store is in Charlottetown—and Woozles (1533 Birmingham Street, 423-7626). At the national Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards 2010, held Saturday in Toronto, Bookmark was the industry’s pick for Bookseller of the Year while Woozles earned Specialty Bookseller of the Year. You guys rock… nicely done.
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Best Independent Bookseller
“It’s the time of year when we’re being flooded with new releases,” says manager Mike Hamm, predicting that Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro, the grand dames of Canadian fiction, will lead the charge this season with their new novels. There’s great interest in the new John Irving book as well, and the world’s most famous […]
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Go local on Spring Garden Road
Strolling down the most popular shopping district in Atlantic Canada, from Robie down to Brunswick—including side-streets bristling with boutiques—the sheer number of vital businesses provides an embarrassment of riches for Shoptalk. More than anywhere else in our fine city, we slam up against the limitation of space on this page. A street that provides a […]