Hugh Templeton tip-off, 28th April 1998
Customers are often the source of valuable information about visiting or interesting authors – an example below from 1998.
Customers are often the source of valuable information about visiting or interesting authors – an example below from 1998.
We had a semi-working typewriter in the shop as part of a display and encouraged customers to use it if they wished. These are the results.
David Cohen responds to an article about retail down-turn with a suggestion businesses wanting to adjust to the threat of perceived lower online prices might wish to focus on service…
Amongst the rest of the book trade gossip in Beverley Baskerville’s June 2008 column in the Booksellers News is the lovely story of Fiona Kidman’s generosity in feeding the booksellers…
Long-time customer David Lascelles reminisces about Unity Books through its 40 year history in this letter of congratulation.
Two views on book pricing in the letters pages of the Dominion Post.
Ivan Bootham’s poem takes joy in a poetry section left disordered by a previous browser’s distraction.
Author and customer James McNeish passed away just shortly before the Kaikoura 7.8 quake shook the country. His obituary appeared in the Dominion Post.
Corin Dann nominates us as his favourite Wellington store – “lush and fun” – for his profile on the Capital Day page of the Dominion Post.
After running a competition on Bookshop Day in which you could win your favourite book, one of the winners wrote us this lovely thank-you note.