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Margin Squeeze, Waikato Times, 2000
NZ Book Trade
October 24, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Margin Squeeze, Waikato Times, 2000

An article in the Waikato Times about the effects chain bookstores’ policies of loss-leading bestselling titles has on smaller or independent bookshops.

Erotica Story, Evening Post, 2000
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October 18, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Erotica Story, Evening Post, 2000

An article in the Evening Post about two erotic novels written by New Zealand women – Avocado by Christine Leov-Lealand and Bare by Toni Lee, who might buy them and…

Museum of Me by Ellen Ullman, 1st May 2000
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September 13, 2017 posted by Unity Wellington

Museum of Me by Ellen Ullman, 1st May 2000

An article in Harper’s Magazine on “disintermediation” asking questions about the meaning of the now almost fully commercialised internet. Do we need “gatekeepers”? Is specialist knowledge worth cultivating? Ellen Ullman…