“Fine bookshop goes under”, The Wellingtonian, 28th May 2009
An article in The Wellingtonian paper about the closure of Bruce & Janis Caddy’s Dymocks Bookshop on “Stewart Dawson’s Corner” – between Willis Street and Lambton Quay.
Tag Archives: Whitcoulls
“Whitcoulls: more than just books in market share war” article by Karyn Scherer, New Zealand Herald, 27th May 1999
An interview with Fran Stanley, then the new general manager of Whitcoulls, about the challenges facing the company and the industry, and how she planned to tackle them.
Big Booksellers Lose Money article, 22nd January 2004
An article by The Independent discusses the fortunes and management moves of three big bookselling chains.
“The Pot Thickens”, by Frances Walsh, The Listener, 18th December 1999
An article in The Listener assessing the impact of Borders opening in Auckland. In an interesting pair of forecasts, Flying Pig founder predicts independent bookstores as the likely losers, while…
“Harry Potter and the sale below cost” article, The Listener, 18th November 2000
A few weeks after Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling, this article by Noel O’Hare about deep-discounting, loss-leading and counter-strategies used by various…
Book Pricing Article, Evening Post, 16th August 2000
An article about costs for the second printing of Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King. Contrasts are made with the price-slashing of Harry Potter…
Flying Pig Evening Post article, 5th September 2000
Article in the Evening Post about the imminent collapse of book-website Flying Pig. Contains speculation about various other online schemes, none of which seem to have lasted.
“Wormholes” Bookshop article, Sunday Star-Times, 21st January 2001
Iain Sharp writes about bookshops in the Sunday Star-Times: “…many take books seriously. My idea of the perfect holiday is driving the length and breadth of the country, checking out…
A Song of Unity Books, 25th December 1990
A sort-of-Christmas-card:
Letter of Support, 26th March 1998
A letter from Cecilia Johnson to The Readers & Writers committee expressing dismay that the chosen bookseller for the festival was Whitcoulls. She would have preferred it to be Unity…
