This bookmark is from the Montreal Nicholas Hoare bookstore, which opened in 1971 and closed in 2012 due to the usual reasons (per the CBC: “high rent and pressure from online and big box retailers”). Plus the owner was looking to retire. The Ottawa store closed at the same time. The Toronto Nicholas Hoare stayed open for another year.
Book: Noise by Russell Smith
Alex Good 
Have you still got any book stores in the vicinity?
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Yep, we have the Bookshelf downtown. And a big box store at the mall.
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The only bookstores left in our area are an independent one that has gone through about 3 name/ownership/location changes in the last 10 years and a barnes and noble at one of the big malls.
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I honestly don’t know how most of them keep in business. The big box stores now sell a lot of general merchandise. The smaller stores . . . low overhead? And it’s not just the obvious issue of competition with online sellers (new, used, and discount). It’s the fact that fewer people are reading.
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I figure another decade will see the one small store here gone. Then the b&n turned into a toystore (which it practically already is. there are as many if not more toys/games/etc as books)
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Yes things are changing quickly now. All that will be left are the bookmarks!
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And I guess those will be worth millions.
About 1 year after you die 😉
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Don’t forget to grab some from the bookstore near you before it closes! You too can be a bookmark millionaire.
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I don’t frequent that bookstore any more. Not after I was looking for a specific edition and the lazy clerk told me to search for it on amazon….
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Ugh. Oh well.
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I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it. But it would explain their slow descent 😦
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I haven’t been to a new-book store for a very long time. The recent closing that made me sad was the Skatetown just up the road. Had only ever been myself (with the family) one time for a school function or something years ago, but I loved that it was there. In fact, it’s still there a couple years later, sign and all. If I had the Riches of the Indies I’d buy it myself and hire someone to run it.
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Yeah, I have dreams of running a bookstore like the ones I frequented in my youth. Where the owner sat sleeping in a chair behind the checkout. But times have changed!
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