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Ottawa’s most successful used bookstores run on donations

On a Saturday morning in Nepean, shoppers leave the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre with tote bags tugging at their shoulders, loaded with paperbacks priced lower than a cup of coffee. Across town in Stittsville, donated titles pile up at the Re-Read Used Books counter and vanish by day’s end. Read MoreA volunteer-run operation moves $500,000 a year in used books — and booksellers say it’s helping, not hurting, the market.  Life, Local News, News, Ottawa Sun On a Saturday morning in Nepean, shoppers leave the James Bartleman Archives and Library Materials Centre with tote bags tugging at their shoulders, loaded with paperbacks priced lower than a cup of coffee. Across town in Stittsville, donated titles pile up at the Re-Read Used Books counter and vanish by day’s end. Read More 

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