Fair Work approves BRTD EBA
The enterprise bargaining agreement between staff and owners at Sydney bookshop Better Read Than Dead (BRTD) signed earlier this year, has been approved by the Fair Work Commission. Conditions under...
Lindsay opens The Book Nest Mudgee
Portia Lindsay, a former bookseller at Better Read Than Dead and Potts Point Bookshop who now runs the Mudgee Readers’ Festival in Mudgee, NSW, has opened a new bookstore in...
The Turning Page Bookshop to become co-op
The owners of the Turning Page Bookshop in the Blue Mountains suburb of Springwood, NSW are in the process of transforming the business into a co-operative, after putting the shop...
The Book Grocer celebrates 20th anniversary
The Book Grocer is celebrating 20 years since establishing its first store. In a letter to staff and customers, founder Karl Slotte described opening the first of the chain’s stores...
Collins Ballarat relocates to ‘destination store’ in heritage building
The Ballarat branch of Collins Booksellers has relocated to a heritage-listed building on Lydiard Street in the Ballarat city centre. Formerly located about a block and half away on Sturt...
Kinokuniya’s Hiroshi Sogo on creating a ‘global niche’
As director of international business development for Japanese chain Books Kinokuniya, Hiroshi Sogo oversees stores in the US, Australia, UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan. The keynote speaker for...
Dymocks celebrates 135th birthday with sales promotions
Dymocks is celebrating 135 years of bookselling with several new sales promotions. Dymocks staff and franchisees across the country have selected their ‘135 top reads of all time’, which have...
Postage costs and the Australian book industry: a history
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) believes the biggest threat to bookshops and other local retailers is postage costs. It offers this example: ‘It costs in excess of ten times more...
Nicky Stevens: Real issues in book retailing
Nicky Stevens, owner of Manning Valley Books in NSW, says her bookshop is in danger of closing this year. She believes the Australian publishing industry ‘is on self-destruct’, citing department store discounting and poor...
Business smarts: Bill Liddelow of Boffins Bookshop
Boffins Bookshop in Perth has won Specialist Bookseller of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards for six years running. Owner Bill Liddelow shares his bookselling wisdom—with a nod...
Warren Bonett on what booksellers want from publishers
In the relationship between the bookseller and the publisher, the latter holds most of the cards. Publishers supply direct to consumers, sometimes at a similar discount to wholesale; they set...
Catherine Schulz on what booksellers want from publishers
For the engaged bookseller, I think the relationship with Australian publishers is quite good. Keeping in touch with publishers via conferences, roadshows, author dinners and office visits (and even facebook...
Online-only children’s bookshop launched
An online-only children’s bookshop has launched in Australia. The Kids’ Bookshop launched ‘softly’ in November 2012 and made its first sale a few days later, owner Graham Gill told Bookseller+Publisher. Based...
Specialist bookshop for sale
Specialist online and bricks-and-mortar bookseller Pitstop is for sale. The bookseller, which specialises in motoring books and media, is currently based in Perth. However, owner and general manager Peter Lyster...
Canadian Booksellers Association votes to become a division of retail council rather than dissolve
The financially troubled Canadian Booksellers Association has decided at its annual general meeting to ‘explore becoming a division’ of the country’s retail council after members were asked to vote on...
Waterstones launches new branding campaign, exclusive anthology
In the UK, bookselling chain Waterstones has launched a new branding campaign that includes advertising on the London Underground and billboards, as well as in the press, in-house merchandise and...
Riverbend Books launches new website with Circle Soft
Riverbend Books has launched a new website, featuring live inventory information alongside other title information. Riverbend Books owner Suzy Wilson told Bookseller+Publisher that updating the website was a necessary step...
Discovery and the art of bookselling
Australian author and literary agent Virginia Lloyd travelled to Book Expo America last month, where everyone was talking about ‘the problem of discovery’. The more some things change in book...
Get Reading! drops free book incentive
Following the news that the '50 Books You Can’t Put Down' list will be all-Australian for the first time this year, Get Reading! has revealed that this year’s campaign will...
The social network: technology and bookselling
From social media ‘evangelists’ to technophobes, booksellers are a mixed lot—but social media is a learning process for everyone, writes Matthia Dempsey. Using social media to drive community engagement with...