Canada's oldest bookstore shut down

From CBC’s Web site, about the oldest Canadian book store located in Halifax:

The 169-year-old Book Room survived wars and the Great Depression, but couldn’t outlast the vagaries of today’s retail and economic realities.

“The market reality is really changing,” said owner Charles Burchell, who described how a book was delivered to his store by mistake around Christmas time. The Book Room sits on the bottom of an apartment building; an online order was made by a tenant upstairs.

“The book was on our shelf, so they could have come down in two minutes and picked the book up, but they chose to order by computer and wait five [to] seven days for it to come in,” Burchell told CBC Radio.

It’s funny. I don’t read books, but I’m still touched by this.