http://www.jcgale.com/blog/?p=365 Mad ramblings of an Australian author Fri, 18 Aug 2017 06:45:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://www.jcgale.com/blog/?p=365&cpage=1#comment-477 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:15 +0000 http://www.jcgale.com/blog/?p=365#comment-477 I had not thought about how the closure of these businesses would affect aspiring authors – its a very sad state of affairs!

]]> http://www.jcgale.com/blog/?p=365&cpage=1#comment-475 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:30:34 +0000 http://www.jcgale.com/blog/?p=365#comment-475 Don’t despair. Despite the hype from the owners of the two chains about Internet purchasing, that could well just be to divert attention from their business model and their management of the businesses. The Saturday Age had a few interesting articles and opinion pieces that suggested this (eg http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/managing/borders-demise-not-just-down-to-net-say-booksellers-20110221-1b1kl.html). Dymocks and the independents still exist.

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