Far from the madding big-box crowd

Gary Deane let us know about This Nice Story on Nicholas Hoare booksellers, up on T.O.

Marc Glassman, 23 years after opening his Pages bookstore on Queen St. West, is breaking sales records, despite the arrival of a Chapters store down the street. After a 7 per cent revenue dip the year Chapters moved in, Pages bounced back and last year recorded its best sales year ever and this year is looking better than last.