Our Hero: The Independent Bookstore

What a success University Press Week has been! Today is the last day of the blog tour, so make sure to take a look at the final stops.

We would like to take this opportunity to step out of the limelight for a minute and thank one of the biggest supporters of university presses around the world: the independent bookstore. Independent bookstores buy our books. They appreciate scholarly thinking, serious writing, and offer some of the most bibliophilic spaces you could ever hope to find. They fight to stay alive in an industry monopolized by big-box stores—and all for the love of reading. Walking into an independent bookstore is—for hardcore book lovers—like coming home.

Though there are many, many more to speak of, here is a list of a few independent bookstores we know and love. We hope you will take the time to visit the ones nearest you; we know they’d love to see you.

Happy 75th anniversary to the AAUP, and here’s to 75 more!

Burlington, ON
A Different Drummer Books

Calgary, AB
Pages Books
Shelf Life Books

Cambridge, ON
Book Express

Edmonton, AB
Audreys Books

Fergus, ON
Roxanne’s Reflections

Guelph, ON
The Bookshelf

Halifax, NS
Bookmark

Hamilton, ON
Bryan Prince Bookseller

Kingston, ON
Novel Idea

Montreal, QC
Bertrand Bookstore
Exportlivre
Nicholas Hoare
Paragraphe Bookstore

Ottawa, ON
Collected Works
Octopus Bookstore

Sarnia, ON
The Book Keeper

Saskatoon, SK
McNally Robinson

Toronto, ON
Another Story
Ben McNally Books
Book City
Theatre Books
Type Books

Waterloo, ON
Words Worth Books

Winnipeg, MB
McNally Robinson

Wolfville, NS
Box of Delights

Victoria, BC
Bolen Books
Munro’s Bookstore

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