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Christmas sales up for most as retailers regain some of REDgroup's market share
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter special bulletin on Monday 23 January, 80% of respondents to our annual post-Christmas survey reported that Christmas sales were up on Christmas 2010. The Niels...
Ebooks and ereaders
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 them, with 46% not sel...
Stock: supply and return
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 ...
Publishers' perspectives: sales fewer but 'simpler' without REDgroup
There was no consistent sales trend among the publishers this Christmas. While several of the bigger publishers reported a sales increase, including A&U, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, many re...
Post-Christmas survey: 80% report sales up
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 majori...
Sales data: market recovers some of REDgroup's pie
The sales data from Nielsen BookScan for the 13 weeks to the end of 2011 suggest that the local book trade has recovered some of the Christmas market share held by REDgroup in 2010. Overall, sale...
The wash up
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 information, displ...
Pre-Christmas survey 2011: A mixed bag
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 ...
Stock, supply, staff... sale?
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 and anecdotal evidenc...
Online sales, ebooks and ereaders
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, while 10% said they had a webs...
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