Publishers’ perspectives
Booksellers aren't the only ones worried about the talk of gloom and doom. Murdoch Books CEO Juliet Rogers told WBN that her company was doing better than expected. ‘Given the...
Parallel importation
Finally, while we had the ear of so many booksellers and publishers from around the nation, we thought we'd take the opportunity to ask everyone (anonymously of course!), which of...
Post-Christmas
This year 49% of booksellers reported they would be holding a public sale after Christmas and 49% said they would be sticking to regular trading post-Christmas and not holding a...
WBN post-Xmas survey
WBN published the results of its post-Christmas survey as a Special Bulletin last Friday, showing that over 90% of those surveyed had an ‘excellent' or ‘good' Christmas. For the full...
Post-Christmas survey shows an uncommonly good Christmas
The results of WBN's post-Christmas survey are in, with over 90% of Australia's booksellers reporting that the Christmas season of 2007-08 has been either 'excellent' (51%) or 'good' (41%). Only...
Positive outlook as the trade looks to a big Christmas
In the lead-up to Christmas 2007, the trade continues to be cautiously positive about the biggest sales period of the year.In the past week, WBN has spoken to representatives of over...
WBN survey shows a merry Christmas for 98% of booksellers
Australia's booksellers have had another strong Christmas, with over 40% of respondents to WBN's post-Christmas survey saying that the season was ‘excellent', and two-thirds reporting that 2006 Christmas sales were...
Booksellers cautiously positive leading into Christmas
The overall mood of the book trade leading into Christmas is positive, but cautiously so: compared to recent years far fewer booksellers are reporting ‘excellent’ sales so far, or predicting...