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Kobo Mini, Glo available from Bookworld 

5 December 2012

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 

22 August 2012

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 

7 August 2012

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

2 August 2012

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 

20 April 2012

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 

18 April 2012

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 

17 April 2012

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 

11 July 2011

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 to sell ebooks online by May 2010 

15 December 2009

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 

29 September 2009

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...

ABA: PC recommendations could increase book prices 

31 March 2009

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...

A&R Ashfield closing 

11 November 2008

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 

28 October 2008

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 

30 September 2008

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’ 

23 September 2008

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...