Staff of The Little Bookroom in Carlton North are hand delivering 100 books a day, part of bookshops having to embrace change to stay afloat.
Soccer and circus school are banned, they can’t see their friends and they haven’t been able to go to school.
During lockdown Kiara and Samuel Louca of Coburg look forward to book deliveries by The Little Bookroom staff.With a yell and a knock on the door from the delivery man, every three weeks a few new books land on their Coburg doorstep. The Little Bookroom owner Leesa Lambert said initially she was "terrified" of losing the business, however, sales for the year to date are up 15 per cent on the same time last year. The shop’s decision to hand-deliver books to suburbs as far as Moonee Ponds and Reservoir has been a hit.Penny Stephens
In the lead-up to national Love Your Bookshop Day, Australian Booksellers Association CEO Robbie Egan pointed to Nielsen BookScan figures, that show the value of print book sales in the year to August 22 were up by 2.9 per cent on last year, totalling over $681 million.Mr Egan said: "Australian communities have been wonderful supporters of their local bookshops during the pandemic, and bookshops have responded in turn with great ingenuity.
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