When asked how A Different Drummer Books has survived 50 years in the turbulent bookselling business, owner Ian Elliot credits the community of booklovers in Burlington, Ont. “We’re lucky,” he says.

I used to have this nightmare in which I’d be walking out of a big chain bookstore, probably Chapters, with a book purchase and run into Richard Bachmann, who at the time owned A Different Drummer ...

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