New Dymocks store to open in Prahran
A new Dymocks store will open in Prahran in Melbourne in October. The new store, which will officially open on 10 October, will be located at 269-271 Chapel Street, which...
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Free ‘Little Library’ at Melbourne Central The operators of Melbourne Central shopping centre have established a free ‘Little Library’ on the second level of the centre, reports the Age. The...
MWF 2012: box office up 10%; Griffiths, Callow top bestsellers list
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded the festival’s highest box office earnings to date, with tickets sales up 10% on the 2011 festival. More than 50,000 people attended this year’s...
Robinsons Bookshop to open store at Chadstone
Independent Melbourne bookstore Robinsons Bookshop will open a third store next month. Owner Suzanne Horman told Bookseller+Publisher that the new store will open in Chadstone Shopping Centre in early October. Horman bought...
Embiggen wins best fitout award
Embiggen Books, located in the QV building opposite the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, has won the QV’s annual retail award for best fitout. In presenting the award, QV...
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Preparations underway for the Reading Hour The Reading Hour will take place this Saturday 25 August from 6-7pm. The initiative, which is part of the National Year of Reading 2012,...
Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival kicks off this month
This year’s Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival in Melbourne’s west will run between 31 August and 9 September. The festival will open on Friday 31 August with a 1920s-themed gala with...
New owner reopens Clifton Hill Books
The new owner of Clifton Hill Books reopened the bookstore over the weekend to coincide with National Bookshop Day. Lynne Hamilton purchased the store earlier this year and has been...
New Avenue Bookstore to open in Elsternwick
Independent Melbourne bookseller Avenue Bookstore will open a new store in Elsternwick in October, following the purchase of independent bookstore Sunflower Bookshop. Sunflower Bookshop, located at 434 Glenhuntly Road in...
RMIT to host 2012 NonfictionNow conference
Melbourne’s RMIT University will host this year’s NonfictionNow conference in November as a result of a partnership between the university’s school of media and communications and the nonfiction writing program...
Melbourne to host Rare Book Week
The Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers will hold the inaugural Melbourne Rare Book Week this month. The free event will take place between 19 and 29 July...
Vic government announces library funding for Docklands, City Library, North Fitzroy, Ashburton, Ringwood and Whittlesea
Several funding announcements have been made in the past week as part of the second round of funding for the Victorian Government’s Living Libraries Infrastructure Program, worth $17.2 million over...
Motto opens new bookstore in Melbourne
International publication distributor Motto has opened its first Australian bookstore in Melbourne. The bookstore, which is located on Keele Street in Collingwood’s Compound Interest Centre for the Applied Arts, officially...
Book Street in Toorak to close by August
Independent Melbourne bookstore Book Street will close by August. Owner David Marlow told Bookseller+Publisher that the current lease on the Toorak store ends in early August, however, the store may...
WH Smith to open second store at Melbourne’s Southern Cross station
UK bookselling chain WH Smith will open a second store at Southern Cross train station in Melbourne next month. A spokesperson for WH Smith told Bookseller+Publisher that the new store,...
Readers of Whitehorse bookshop closes
Independent Melbourne bookstore Readers of Whitehorse has closed. The store, which was located in the Centro shopping centre in Box Hill, Melbourne, finished trading on Friday 13 April. Readers of...
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...
New owners for Melbourne secondhand bookstore
Alice’s Bookshop, on Rathdowne Street in Carlton, Victoria, has been taken over by new owners Ellen Boyd and Joshua Green, reports the Age. The secondhand bookshop, which stocks approximately 18,500...
Reader’s Feast to reopen before Christmas
Reader's Feast Bookstore will reopen in a new location in Melbourne before Christmas. Store owner Mary Dalmau told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the newly independent store will be located in...
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New pop-up stores from Arcade teamDale Campisi and Michael Brady from Arcade Publications have launched a new retail venture and postal service in Melbourne, called Melbournalia. The Melbournalia stores, which will...