Bricks-and-Mortar: Bookselling and Supermarket Philosophy.
The closure of Australia's most iconic and prolific bookselling chain, Angus & Robertson, reduced access to bricks-and-mortar bookstores for many readers. This paper examines the attempted importation of supermarket retail strategies into the relationship between the A&R group and publishers. The To...
| Published in: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 55 - 67 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2013
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