“It’s not that bookshops aren’t viable businesses,” Robbie Egan, chief executive of Australian booksellers association BookPeople told the Sydney Morning Herald last month, “it’s that Booktopia appears not to be.”
Booktopia, Australia’s biggest online bookseller, is poised for collapse. That doesn’t mean bookshops are in trouble | https://theconversation.com/booktopia-australias-biggest-online-bookseller-is-poised-for-collapse-that-doesnt-mean-bookshops-are-in-trouble-233975
#reading #australia #bookstore
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