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Pages owner Marc Glassman and Pages staff throughout the ages<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate 30 years of Pages Books and Magazines at the Gladstone Hotel last night. The event was more of a wake, with touching sendoffs from people representing each literary section of the store. Spacing was happy to be a partner for this important event along with Coach House Books, NOW, and This Is Not A Reading Series.<\/p>\n Pages was special to us because the store embodied everything we like about the city life: it had a great community vibe, staff possessed hyper-local sensibilities when promoting publications, and the fact that almost 100% of people shopping there arrived on foot. Pages acted as a human-scale counter-balance to the imposing CityTV just across the street.<\/p>\n Pages was also a huge pusher of Spacing: almost 40% of our Toronto newsstand sales came off of their shelves making us the store’s top-selling magazine. Other independent Canadian magazines often sold over 10% of their newsstands copies through Pages. But beyond just selling our magazine, Pages staff let us do a window display for the magazine’s second issue about pedestrian issues; the store exclusively sold our end-of-year holiday gift pack wrapped in a TTC map; and you could often find our subway buttons for sale on their front counter.<\/p>\n We graciously thank Pages’ staff for their friendliness and help since our launch. We’re gonna miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"