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Booktopia - Voluntary Administration
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Read more... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-...tail/104053908 |
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I found this an interesting read on the state of Australian book sales...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-...hing/104087636 Never would I have thought the highest volume of book sales comes from discount stores like Kmart and BigW. |
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And very little mention of ebooks and audiobooks in the article. And from the article: Quote:
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But Amazon has about 80% of sales of online paper printed books in USA and over 92% of English Language ebooks world wide.
Shame about Booktopia. Easons in Ireland used to be about 100% books. Maybe less than a 1/4 of floor space is books now. Everything from Art materials to Vapes. Toys, ice-cream, cheap jewelery. The popular titles are in Tesco Supermarket and don't see much activity. The local independent bookshop has a half wall of sweets and two aisles of school and office stationary now. |
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Reminds me of JB HIFI. A few years ago, it was the place to go for movies/music/tvshows.
My local store had about 20 aisles devoted to these disks. Now there are three aisles, and the remaining is full of these plastic junk anime dolls, blenders, vacuum cleaners, coffee machines and other items that I would never have thought to buy from JB HiFI. |
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Aisles of DVD, Music and Electronic parts (this is where I say my first Sony e-reader and the Astak) |
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Or Maplin shops in UK and Ireland before demise. Electronics reduced to a couple of aisles, loads of "big boy's toys" and junk disco lighting etc.
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In the US in Massachusetts, was a chain called Leachmere. It was bough out by some other chain not in MA and the stores were used to help the other failing chain. That was a big loss until Best Buy came in and bought some of the old stores. Lechmere was similar to Best Buy.
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As for discs, there are a lot of Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray being made. Those with a Xbox One S or Series X or PS5 have a 4K disc player. Last edited by JSWolf; 07-14-2024 at 05:37 AM. |
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