“Looks Good On Paper”, Retail Magazine, December 2000
A broad-ranging article about the then-current state of the book trade, and some ideas about possible futures.
Tag Archives: Whitcoulls
“Book store’s losses border on $10m” article, Denise McNabb, 31st July 2002
Article about the war of attrition between Borders and Whitcoulls in Auckland.
“Harry Potter and the Section 36 mystery”, Evening Post, 30th July 2000
An article about Whitcoulls’ pricing strategy with regard to to the release of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling (Bloomsbury).
“Store wars looming as US book giant moves in”, Dominion, 23rd May 1999
An article details the steps the Whitcoulls chain is taking to prepare for the arrival of US-owned chain Borders.
“Soft sales affect bookstore profit” article, Evening Post, 4th October 1995
An article about the profitability of Whitcoulls.
Sale analysis, 10th January 2003
An analysis of the effect of Dymocks & Whitcoulls both running sales at the same time. It was also our last day of remaining open until 8pm on a Friday…
“Blue Star regrouping mooted as Whitcoulls battles”, National Business Review, 17th March 2000
Chris Baty sent us a copy of this National Business Review article discussing the fortunes and dynamics of Whitcoulls and associated businesses.
“My Word” article, Unlimited magazine, 1st July 1999
An article about the possibility that the existence and behaviour of online-only book retailers may perversely have helped physical bookstores, by giving them the push they needed to examine their…
Political Parties and Bookshops analogy, Brian Easton, 29th July 1996
A paper presented at Booksellers Conference by Brian Easton compares the variety of bookshops to the then small selection of political parties contesting the imminent election and draws some interesting…
Whitcoulls buys London Bookshops Chain, 1993
Unity Books took a pro-active approach, outlined below, on learning that Whitcoulls had purchased the London Bookshops chain.
