Kobo Mini, Glo available from Bookworld
Online booksellers Bookworld and Angus & Robertson are now selling two of Kobo’s new ereading devices—the Kobo Mini and the Kobo Glo. The online stores are selling the five-inch Kobo...
Your Bookshop chain opens fourth store
The chain of independent bookshops Your Bookshop has opened a fourth store. The new store, which opened in July, is located in Top Ryde in New South Wales. The first...
Webber appointed CEO of Bookworld
James Webber, former ecommerce and digital manager at REDgroup Retail, has been appointed CEO of Bookworld, the division of Pearson Australia which operates the Angus & Robertson (A&R) and the...
Pearson to rebrand Borders online as Bookworld
Pearson Australia Group will rebrand the former REDgroup Retail-owned Borders online business as Bookworld this month. In a statement on the Borders.com.au website, Pearson said that the current Borders.com.au website...
The recent boom in the remainder book trade
It’s an aspect of the industry that’s rarely discussed, but the remainder book trade in Australia is booming, reports Eloise Keating. When Angus & Robertson and Borders stores began to...
ARBR opens two new A&R bookstores in Queensland
Angus & Robertson Book Retailing (ARBR), the sister company of former REDgroup-owned newsagency chain Supanews, has opened two new Angus & Robertson (A&R)-branded bookstores in Queensland. ARBR marketing manager Michaela...
New Dymocks store opens in Melbourne
A new Dymocks bookstore opened on Saturday 14 April at Knox Shopping Centre in Wantirna South, Victoria, taking the place of a space once occupied by Borders. Dymocks employee Jamie...
Collins Booksellers to acquire ‘group of’ A&R franchises
Collins Booksellers has announced that it has secured agreement with REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson to acquire an undisclosed number of the surviving Angus & Robertson (A&R)�franchise stores.Collins Booksellers CEO Daniel...
REDgroup administration: 12 more A&R stores to close; Whitcoulls airport stores sold
The administrators of REDgroup Retail have announced a further 12 Angus & Robertson stores will close. A statement from administrators Ferrier Hodson released on Thursday 31 March said the closures will...
REDgroup to sell ebooks online by May 2010
REDgroup Retail has announced it will make ebooks available from its Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls websites by May 2010, following an agreement with 'new global ereading service' Kobo...
In brief
Fox title recommended in Oprah Book ClubTen Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes (Mem Fox, Helen Oxenbury, Viking) has been recommended by Oprah in her Oprah's Book Club Kids' Reading...
Parallel importation: media coverage, 278 submissions posted by Productivity Commission
The 278 submissions so far posted on the Productivity Commission's website in response to its draft recommendations on Australia's parallel importation laws outnumber the 272 submissions originally received by the...
ABA: PC recommendations could increase book prices
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has claimed that the Productivity Commission's proposed changes to Australia's book parallel importation laws ‘are in danger of putting upward pressure on all new titles...
Book Pal and A&R strike deal to distribute self-published authors
Self-publishing service company Book Pal Australia has announced a new partnership with Angus & Robertson. The distribution deal will mean readers can order the self-published titles by Book Pal authors...
A&R closes web retailing ahead of April relaunch
Angus & Robertson (A&R) will launch a new and updated website in April, to be followed by similarly updated sites for Whitcoulls in New Zealand in May and for Borders...
ARW looks forward to a strong Christmas, despite loss
While Angus & Robertson Whicoulls (ARW) has posted a $5.6-million full-year loss, managing director of the group Dave Fenlon told WBN the final figures represented ‘a good result'. The full-year...
A&R Ashfield closing
Angus & Robertson Ashfield will be closing at the end of the year, after being run as a franchise for eight years by Samira Rezai-nia. Prior to the Ashfield store,...
Borders to open in Geelong
Borders will open a new store in Geelong on Victoria's surf coast tomorrow. The store, which will feature more than 100,000 titles, according to a Borders statement, will be managed by...
Aussie authors feature strongly in A&R poll
Australian books make up a good percentage of Angus & Robertson's ‘Top 100' Book list, announced today. Twenty-two spots are taken by Australian books; Marcus Zusak's The Book Thief (Picador)...
A&R launches POD ‘Espresso Book Machine’
Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls (ARW) has launched the first retail ‘Espresso Book Machine' (EBM) in Australia at its Melbourne Bourke Street store. The machine, which prints a book in seven...