{"id":26216,"date":"2025-07-26T19:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26216\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T19:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T19:52:09","slug":"beloved-dartmouth-bookstore-to-remain-open-after-surge-in-community-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26216\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Dartmouth bookstore to remain open after surge in community support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">An iconic\u00a0bookstore in Dartmouth, N.S., that faced eviction over two months of unpaid rent was able to raise the money it needed to get caught up, thanks to an outpouring of support from the community.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">John W. Doull, Bookseller has been an institution in the city since 1987. It\u00a0specializes\u00a0in rare and out-of-print books, but carries a wide selection of literature on almost every topic imaginable.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The deadline for the bookstore to get caught up was Friday.\u00a0It was previously estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/doull-s-bookstore-institution-halifax-closing-by-end-of-week-1.7591181\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the store needed to bring in $15,000 to $20,000<\/a>\u00a0to raise enough revenue to pay for outstanding rent and next month&#8217;s rent.\u00a0Books were discounted by 40 per cent to entice people to come out.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In a post on its website, the business thanked the public for the surge in support and said it would reopen Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;It has been enough to keep us open for another month, has given us a HUGE boost to our morale, and we have great plans for the future!&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A woman stands in front of a sign reading John W. Doull, Bookseller. She is surrounded by books\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753559529_68_john-w-doull-bookseller.png\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7771084337349397\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>With nearly four decades in business, owner John W. Doull estimated in 2023 that the store has between\u00a0two million and three million books in its collection. (CBC)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CBC News contacted the business for comment, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The business was previously located on Barrington Street in Halifax, but moved to Main Street in Dartmouth in 2012.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Its landlord,\u00a0Yellowstone Commercial Developments, confirmed the bookstore paid\u00a0what\u00a0was owed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We were very surprised and kind of happy to see how many vehicles were in the parking lot and how many people were coming in through the building. It hasn&#8217;t been like that for as long as we can remember,&#8221; said controller Will Radford.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With nearly four decades in business, owner John W. Doull\u00a0estimated in 2023 that the store has between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/john-w-doull-bookseller-profile-1.6910639\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two million and three million books in its collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An iconic\u00a0bookstore in Dartmouth, N.S., that faced eviction over two months of unpaid rent was able to raise&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-26216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}