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Ebooks and ereaders 

22 January 2012

Ebooks have certainly arrived in Australia, with the survey indicating 54% of book retailers are either selling ebooks themselves or are part of a chain with the ability to sell...

Stock: supply and return 

22 January 2012

Overall, respondents were fairly happy with the efforts of suppliers this Christmas, but there were notable exceptions. The Steve Jobs biography and Mawson were consistently identified as titles that booksellers...

Post-Christmas survey: 80% report sales up 

22 January 2012

After a shocking Christmas in 2010, Australia's bricks-and-mortar booksellers have had a better story to tell this year. In Bookseller+Publisher's annual post-Christmas survey, the overwhelming majority of respondents (80%) reported...

Publisher perspectives 

18 December 2011

While some booksellers appear to be enjoying a bump in sales owing to the collapse of REDgroup, the loss in retail space has come at a cost to publishers, with...

Online sales, ebooks and ereaders 

18 December 2011

In 2011, most stores surveyed reported being part of a chain with a retail website that sold print books (63%), 18% reported that their store had its own retail website,...

Stock, supply, staff… sale? 

18 December 2011

For the most part, as well as being happy with the books on offer, booksellers were also generally content with publishers' efforts in the realm of supply, though bestseller data...

Pre-Christmas survey 2011: A mixed bag 

18 December 2011

The attitude of booksellers going into Christmas 2011 could best be described as cautiously optimistic. After last year's dismal Christmas, it's perhaps not surprising that many booksellers have been hesitant...

The wash up 

18 December 2011

It's clear that booksellers around the country have been doing their utmost to hold onto their customers in 2011. ‘We have worked very hard this year with events, social media...

The books … and book prices 

15 December 2011

The good news for publishers (and most book retailers) is that booksellers surveyed said they thought the range of books on offer this Christmas was strong (64%), up from only...

Post-Christmas survey: 45% report sales down 

20 January 2011

This year's post-Christmas survey results tell a not-unexpected story--and for Australian bricks and mortar booksellers, it's not a good one. After two-thirds of booksellers surveyed reported pre-Christmas sales were down...

Post-Christmas survey: 45% report sales down 

20 January 2011

This year's post-Christmas survey results tell a not-unexpected story--and for Australian bricks and mortar booksellers, it's not a good one. After two-thirds of booksellers surveyed reported pre-Christmas sales were down...