Booktopia, Australia’s biggest online bookseller, is poised for collapse. That doesn’t mean bookshops are in trouble
By Katya Johanson, Professor of Publishing and Audience Studies, Edith Cowan University
Bronwyn Reddan, Research Fellow, Pathways to Teenage Reading, Deakin University
While most booksellers are driven by their love of books, Booktopia was a business opportunity. At its height, it sold a book every three seconds. How did it fail?![The Conversation](https://counter.theconversation.com/content/233975/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-advanced)
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