In 2009, Brome Lake Books sold 26,601 books. About 55 per cent of these sales were made at this small shop in Millpond Plaza, which, as the name suggests, sits on the old millpond in Knowlton.

A small bookstore that has been a fixture in the Glebe for more than 40 years says its story will end unless it sells $10,000 worth of books this month. Octopus Books has launched a bluntly worded ...