McNally Robinson Booksellers - Saskatoon

3130 8th Street East
Saskatoon, SK, S7H 0W2

Canada

(306) 955-3599; infosaskatoon.mcnallyrobinson.ca

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Web site: http://mcnallyrobinson.com/

Events: http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/s… (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

Description: Featuring McNally Robinson for Kids 955-1477
Prairie Ink Restaurant 955-3579
Regular book and music launch parties, live music. Emphasis on Canadian writers and musicians, especially those from western Canada.
Our store on 8th Street has been Saskatoon's largest independent bookshop at 23,000 square feet. Like other McNally Robinson stores, Saskatoon fields a continuing schedule of readings, book launches and other cultural events. The restaurant and the mezzanine “for Kids” store are both highly popular.

CBA Libris Award for Bookseller of the Year in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006. Other branches in Winnipeg, Calgary, New York City, and opening in Toronto in 2009.

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This may be the most over-priced bookstore on earth. The competition from Indigo has brought prices down a bit. Prices are generally at least 1/3 higher than other places. They have done a wonderful job of making people feel they are cultured by spending far too much for the same books available elsewhere. They do not have a particularly impressive collection; they feature standard new releases and best sellers. This store is all style and no substance.

It is amazing how people feel this price-gouging charade is performing some public service to illiterate prairie folk. The owners of this store rake in money in a way that “evil” big corporations like Amazon or Chapters Indigo can only dream of. And you know what? Mcnally is a chain too with stores in other cities.

Anyway, enjoy your smug sense of pretentious purpose while shopping at an over-priced chain store, I’ll keep my money.

P.S.
Before anyone says the prices are because of the support they give local writers, I will add that those promotions cost them nothing. The authors are more than happy to promote their own books. And the extra copies they sell (with the MR 50% markup) are small compared with the extra profit the store makes.

August 26 by yeremenko

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Past events

McNally Robinson Book Discussion and Signing (March 31 at 7:30pm)
Peter Adsten reads from Crestline: Building World Class Ambulances.
Crestline: Building World Class Ambulances follows the history of Crestline Coach, an ambulance manufacturing company in Saskatoon. It chronicles the evolution of Crestline ambulances as well as the hearses and limousines that Crestline used to build, the rescue trucks and specialty vehicles they manufactured, ... (more)and the Paratransit buses they sold. Proceeds from the sale of this book are donated to the Paramedic Association of Canada, Benevolent Society.
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