Book sellers, caught off guard by Alice Munro’s Nobel Prize, scramble to stock shelves

A seller handles Alice Munro books at the Munro's Books in Victoria October 10, 2013. Ms. Munro has been named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, making her the first Canadian to win the honour. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail)

Ann Hui - The Globe and Mail

Published Thursday, Oct. 10 2013, 

Almost immediately after Alice Munro was announced the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature Thursday, an e-mail was sent to all Chapters Indigo stores.

By noon Thursday, or end of day at the latest, the e-mail from managers read, all locations were to move Ms. Munro’s books to the front of the store.
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