‘Business as usual!’ at The Book Depository
It seems not a week goes by without some important book retailing news going down in the UK: first came the announcement that James Daunt (the man responsible for the successful chain of London...
View ArticleNational Bookshop Day and the complex business of books
August 20 is Australia’s inaugural National Bookshop Day. Inspired by similar promotions in the US and UK, National Bookshop Day is intended to celebrate the important place of the bookshop in our...
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Notes from … Santiago
Photograph: Samuel Rutter In the latest instalment of our ‘Notes from … ’ travel series, Samuel Rutter returns to Santiago, Chile. 1. Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, Pudahuel, Santiago....
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Does the fate of bookshops rest on the fate of books?
Recently, I went to Berwick St in Soho with a DJ friend of mine who was in London for a few days. Once hailed as having the greatest concentration of record shops in Britain – back in the 1990s,...
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All grown up: a brief history of The Little Bookroom
Across the road from Flinders Street Station there is a little street called Degraves. At one end there’s a splash of street art adorning walls and dumpsters, while the other end remains Parisian: all...
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Books for Christmas
With Christmas just around the corner, Meaghan Dew chats to five Melbourne booksellers about the best books to give as gifts, and highlights some of the most popular titles of 2013. Featuring: Henk...
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Going by the book in 2014
As January draws to a close, I suppose it’s finally time to accept that the holiday period is well and truly over (it takes some of us a little longer than others to acknowledge the rude and sudden...
View ArticleA paler world: book culture in a jiffy bag?
One of the most depressing days of my bookselling career came in late December of 2010, deep in the Christmas gift trade. It wasn’t that sales were lousy or the weather was extreme or any of the other...
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