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REDgroup appoints group commercial director to drive growth in non-book categories
REDgroup Retail, owner of Borders, Angus & Robertson and Whitcoulls, has appointed Adrian Jones as group commercial director. Jones will be responsible for growing ‘new focus categories', wh...
The Little Book Room celebrates 50 years
The Little Book Room in Melbourne will celebrate its 50th anniversary on the 13 October. The children's bookstore first opened its doors in the Melbourne CBD on the 13 October, 1960. The store's found...
Readings St Kilda expands
Readings bookstore in St Kilda, Melbourne, will officially launch its new look this weekend with two days of celebrations. The Acland Street store recently closed for less than 48 hours to under...
Dyer sells Domain Books to Durack, retains Fairfield Books
Heather Dyer has sold Domain Books in Melbourne to former staff member Cathy Durack. Durack, who worked at the store for several years, has brought in new staff and is managing the store. Dyer, ...
Dymocks to launch publishing arm, D Publishing
Dymocks will launch a web-based publishing arm in October. To be called D Publishing, the business will allow users to upload draft manuscripts online 'and proceed to produce and publish th...
The Little Bookroom to open second store in Melbourne CBD
The owners of The Little Bookroom have announced that they will open a second store in Melbourne in early 2011. Leesa Lambert, who owns the children's bookstore with her parents Lesley and Ian, told t...
New independent bookstore opens in Perth
Alan Sheardown, former manager of Planet Books, has opened Crow Books, a new independent bookstore in Perth. Sheardown told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the new store, located at 900 Albany H...
Ron Abbey's Bookhouse closes online presence
Ron Abbey's Bookhouse, which moved online in 2006, has closed. The bricks and mortar store was opened by Ron Abbey in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW, in 2000, where it operated as a re...
Boffins celebrates 20 years
Technical and specialist bookshop Boffins Bookshop, in Perth, is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Boffins was one of five bookshops in Perth's West End when it opened in 1989, but is the only one rem...
Brays Books celebrates 40 years
Brays Books in Balmain is celebrating 40 years of operation. Founded by Philip Bray and Margaret Bray and now owned and managed solely by Philip, Brays Books has seen many changes in the bookselling i...
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