Two WA Dymocks stores close
Dymocks stores in two Perth shopping centres—Carousel in Cannington and Midland Gate in Midland—closed on 3 February. Both stores were owned by the same franchise owner. Dymocks MD Steve Cox...
Dymocks reveals 101 Club list for 2015
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) has topped the Dymocks 101 Club list of the best 101 books of all time for 2015, as voted by members of the company’s Booklover...
Dymocks exits Hong Kong
Dymocks is withdrawing from the Hong Kong market, beginning with the closure of its flagship store and Hong Kong office.A further five independently owned and operated Dymocks stores will continue...
Three Dymocks stores to open in November
Two new Dymocks stores in Queensland and one new store in Victoria are scheduled to open in November. The Queensland stores will be located in the regional town of Gympie and the Westfield Garden City...
Sukkarieh joins Dymocks board
Salah Sukkarieh, a professor and ‘robotics expert’ at the University of Sydney, has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Dymocks Group board.
Two Dymocks stores close, two to open
Two Dymocks stores in Melbourne have closed. The Dymocks Southland and Dymocks Fountain Gate stores, operated by franchise owner Jerome Adams, closed at the weekend. The Southland store opened in...
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...
‘The 52-Storey Treehouse’ inspires Guinness World Record
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has inspired a Guinness World Record for the Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Trees. Pan Macmillan publicist Charlotte Ree collaborated...
Book sales up, ‘Treehouse’ number one at Melbourne Writers Festival
Book sales at this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) were ‘well up on last year’, according to festival bookseller Dymocks Melbourne. Co-owner Dino Traverso told Books+Publishing that the festival was ‘full of inspiring and remarkable...
Dymocks Whitford City wins Retail Excellence award at Dymocks national conference
Dymocks Whitford City in Perth has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at this year’s Dymocks national conference, which was held in Canberra from 10-12 August.Awards were also presented to...
Dymocks Collins Place to close
Dymocks Collins Place in Melbourne’s CBD will close on 7 March after almost 20 years of trading. The store, which is located near the larger Dymocks store at 234 Collins Street, first opened in May...
Dymocks Sydney to attempt Guinness World Record ‘reading relay’
Dymocks Bookstore in George Street, Sydney, will attempt to break a Guinness World Record for the largest ‘reading relay’ on 27 February to raise money for Dymocks Children’s Charities.Relay participants...
Dymocks Watergardens reopens; New Co-op store on the Gold Coast
Dymocks has reopened a bookstore at the Watergardens shopping centre in Taylors Lakes, Victoria, after the store closed in April 2013. Reopening in the middle of Dymocks’ Christmas campaign on 14 December,...
Dymocks Alice Springs to close
Alice Springs will lose its only generalist bookstore when Dymocks Alice Springs closes in mid-January. The franchise store’s owner Bev Ellis told Books+Publishing that she has decided to retire from...
Dymocks launches first pop-up store; new location for Canberra store
Dymocks has opened its first pop-up store in the Westfield Eastgardens shopping centre in Sydney. The store, which is 25 sqm in size, opened on 17 October and will trade...
Dymocks highlights staff in new ad campaign
Dymocks has launched a new advertising campaign that focusses on its ‘well-read’ staff members, with advertisements in print, television, cinema, catalogues and in-store. The campaign, which has been created with advertising...
Your store: Sexy events
Sex in Words is a new series of events at Dymocks Adelaide that began in June with erotic fiction readings from authors Kyoko Church, Kate Belle and Angela Castle. The...
Dymocks Kids’ Top 51 list announced
Dymocks has revealed its Kids’ Top 51 list for 2013. The top 10 books on the list are: Tomorrow, When the War Began (John Marsden, Pan) The ‘Harry Potter’ series...
MWF 2013: box-office takings up, Griffith tops bestsellers list
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has recorded another boost in box-office takings. Although ‘detailed figures’ are still being collated, the festival reports that it has ‘surpassed last year’s record-breaking...
Dymocks Ellenbrook wins Retail Excellence award at national conference
The Dymocks store in Ellenbrook in Western Australia has won the Dymocks Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at the 2013 Dymocks national conference, held in Adelaide from 11-13 August. The Dymocks store...