Talk:List of independent bookstores

This article was nominated for deletion on 4 July 2013 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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Need references

the following store names were removed, as they didnt have references. if someone wants to first research them, find refs, then add them back in, great, but dont add names first w/o refs.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:32, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Argo Bookshop in Montreal, Quebec
Booksmarts Canada in Kitchener, Ontario
The Word in Montreal, Quebec
Books for Cooks, Melbourne, specialist exclusively wine, food & cookbooks
The Bookshelf in Guelph, Ontario
Nicholas Hoare in Toronto, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario and Montreal, QC
Words Worth Books in Waterloo, Ontario

Merge proposal

Having both List of independent bookstores and List of bookstore chains seems like an unnecessary hard distinction to me. I've tried to rationalize the current distinction by drawing a line at 3 or less/4 or more stores, but this is kind of arbitrary and can think of good arguments for picking some other number or criterion. I think a good solution is to merge to a single page; we could mark things as "single store"/"small chain"/"large chain" to be more descriptive than a binary "independent" versus "chain" distinction. I'm not even sure the independent/chain distinction is the best way to categorize bookshops. The combined list would not too long, we would move the US chain shops into List of independent bookstores in the United States. 〈 Forbes₇₂ | Talk 〉 06:15, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]