CHRISTMAS CANADA
December 1st, 2001
BY MONICA DOBIECANADA'S booksellers are expecting very profitable sales for Christmas, banking on the general public's need to reflect and have quieter family time over this particular holiday season."Christmas will be good, very good. People are cocooning and books are wonderful to cocoon with," said Richard King of Paragraph Bookstore in Montreal, one of the city's larger bookstores.Mr King said book retail has been thriving and that events of September 11th had actually boosted sales."We're doing well for the wrong reasons but it's happening anyway. No one ...
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