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Guest Post: Why bookstores are the future, not the past by Chris Allen
National bookshop day is this Saturday 10 August. I’ll be getting out and about to support my local bookstores and am putting the call out for others to do the same. It’s a day to have a browse amongst...
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Kindle Amnesty 2.0 – Upgraded and expanded
In April this year Pages & Pages Booksellers declared a Kindle Amnesty where customers were invited on the 3rd Saturday of each month to exchange their Amazon Kindle for a BeBook Touch and a $50...
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How I Completely Failed the Australian Women Writers Challenge in 2013
I completely failed the Australian Women Writers Challenge this year. I did not read one book by an Australian Woman in 2013. I didn’t avoid books written by Australian women but nothing grabbed me,...
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Pages & Pages Named Independent Bookshop of the Year
The 14th Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on Friday in front of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Minister for the Arts George Brandis with Pages & Pages Booksellers...
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The Young Adult Bubble – Is the YA category really performing as well as it...
At the recent Australian Booksellers Association Conference in Melbourne there was a fascinating panel looking at the Young Adult category in children’s books. Young Adult seems to have had a massive...
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Open Letter to The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications
Open Letter to The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for Communications Much has been said recently about the plight of Australia Post. 900 jobs have been lost and daily letter delivery threatened...
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Ebook Subscription Services: Lopping Off the Long Tail
Amazon has recently launched an ebook subscription service following hot on the heels of Scribd and start-up Oyster. For around $US9.95 per month readers are able to access as many ebooks as they want...
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Amazon maybe coming to Australia in the Most Underhanded Way
On Friday evening I as lucky enough to be invited to attend a celebration of Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize win. This happened to coincide with the day it was revealed that Amazon, through a...
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HarperCollins Trials Print and Ebook Bundling with Pages & Pages Booksellers...
Pages & Pages Booksellers & Boomerang Books, in partnership with Harper Collins Australia and Kobo, are trialling the bundling together of print books and ebooks. From today until the end of...
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My Year in Reading – 2015
Firstly if you want to know what my favourite reads of the year were they are all listed here… Last year I started tracking my reading along author gender, format, genre and author nationality (you can...
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