On Saturday, I attended the grand opening of a Christian bookstore about fifteen minutes from my house. To say the store was crowded is an understatement. There were people everywhere – not a bad feat when you consider that Faith Family Books and Gifts is a 12,000 square foot store. There was a ribbon-cutting, Jamaican [Read more...]
Sources tell me there’s a new Christian bookstore opening in Pickering on April 25th. The location is the same as the old Mitchell’s store – 2200 Brock Road, Unit 9. The manager is apparently Brian Reynolds, who was the last manager at the Mitchell’s Bookstore in Willowdale. I’m told the store will be called Michael’s [Read more...]
For those who are anxious to know when the new Christian bookstore will open in Toronto, I got this message from Kern Kalideen: "I am one of the owners and the store will be opened for the first time on Saturday April, 4th 2009 at 10:am. This will be a soft opening since we will [Read more...]
(February 2009) Faith Family Books & Gifts is pleased to announce the opening of a new 11,000 sq foot retail bookstore and gift shop in Toronto at the McCowan and 401 crossroads this coming March. The new owners, a team of senior managers from the publishing, banking and retail industries, have purchased the remaining assets [Read more...]
Faith Family Books and Gifts will be opening soon in Scarborough, Ontario. To see the text of the complete article from the Quill and Quire, see below. “A new Christian book retailer rises from R.G. Mitchell’s ashes January 27, 2009 | 6:27 PM | By Danielle Ng-See-Quan When the Ontario Christian book wholesaler and retailer [Read more...]
While I'd much rather discuss how to write well or what to do to keep your fans happy, the truth is that the publishing industry is changing at such a fast pace that it's hard to keep up these days. In my earlier 5-part series on the future of Christian bookstores in Canada, I looked [Read more...]
Continued from the blog: The Underlying Realities Canadian Christian Bookstores Face – Part 4 Given where we’re coming from (if you haven't read my last four blogs, I suggest you read them before you read this one), I offer the following suggestions for those who still want to operate Christian bookstores in Canada. 1. When [Read more...]
Continued from the last blog: My Subjective Look at Christian Bookstores in Canada – Part 3 I'd like to offer what I think are some real possibilities for the Canadian Christian bookstore of the feature, but before I can do that, I have to go over what I feel are the underlying reasons Christian bookstores [Read more...]
Continued from the previous blogs, "Is there still a need for Christian bookstores in Canada" and "Need for Canadian Christian bookstores – SWOT analysis" 'I actually never saw a Christian bookstore until I was in my early twenties) or knew they existed.) If there were any in south-western Manitoba, they weren’t in my neighbourhood. I believe [Read more...]
Continued from Part 1: My SWOT Analysis of the need for Canadian Christian Bookstores Okay, times have changed. How are things going? Apparently not so well. I decided to do a SWOT analysis to discover what I think are the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities Canadian Christian bookstores are facing today. Strengths of Christian bookstores [Read more...]
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