STORE EVENTS REVIEWS VIEW MAP With over 25 years in Canberra, this locally-owned Dymocks franchise is recognised as Canberra’s favourite bookstore. The experienced and well-read staff can provide recommendations and also help find great reads and track down rare gems. The shop has recently undergone a major expansion and redesign and offers the very best shopping experience for book-lovers and gift-buyers alike. The new location in the lower ground area (adjacent to David Jones) is proving very convenient for Canberrans and the extra space available means an even wider range of books and gifts is offered. Come in and say hello and enjoy the browsing! Meet Alice Campion at Dymocks Canberra Friday 17 March 2017 As these are the first group-written novels to be published in Australia they are fascinating readers and reviewers around Australia. Come and meet the authors to find out how they co-ordinate their writing. Welcome to Dymocks, Australia's leading bookseller for 135 years.
Giggle and Hoot - Hoot, Hoot! Slow Cooker Central - Super Savers On sale until 30 June, 2017! Truly Tan - Trapped The Good Girl Stripped Bare The Berlin Syndrome (Film Tie-in) Nevertheless - A Memoir On sale until 31 May, 2017! Och Aye The G'Nu Storybook On sale until 30 April, 2017! After by Nikki Gemmell Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies The Scent of You Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy The Bear Who Went Boo! My Kind of Food Signed Copy Monday Morning Cooking Club - It's Always About... 10 Things Girls Need Most On sale until 31 May, 2017! At Dymocks Tuggeranong we stock a wide range of titles, with particular focus on Children's books, Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy. We are also an ABC Centre, featuring all the latest and greatest the ABC has to offer, and we are happy to place special orders for whatever hard-to-get title you may need! We have been trading in Tuggeranong from the same location for more than 18 years, 11 of those under the current ownership, and are a dedicated part of the local community.
We are delighted to offer book gift wrapping in return for a gold coin donation to the Dymocks Children's Charity, and our friendly staff are always happy to offer helpful, knowledgeable advice for all your book queries. Pre-order now to be the first to own all the latest releases! Give the gift of choice! Available in a value between $10 to $500 Choose from a one or two-year subscription! For yourself or as a gift that keeps giving. Discover a rewarding way to shop! Join now and start earning points today. Stores Near your current locationNew Fiction See More >> All Our Wrong Todays New Non-Fiction See More >> Hope More Powerful than the... Spider and the Fly Death by Dim SimThe national broadcaster has announced the closure of 50 ABC Shops across the country. Its online shop and retail kiosks will remain, but the bricks and mortar stores are no longer covering their costs and will be phased out. Meanwhile, grandparents and parents around the country have greeted the news with simultaneous relief that they will never again receive a pair of Dr Who Ugg boots for Christmas or Father's Day, and terror at the potential wait for the ABC's online shop to deliver a replacement Peppa Pig or Wiggles toy.
So what is behind the closure? Managing director Mark Scott claimed on Thursday morning it was declining CD and DVD sales, saying customers were now buying this content online. (Errr, the ABC's iView is also putting whole series online so we don't actually have to buy it.) Mr Scott added the shops had been operating at a loss for the past year."[It] would not be possible for us to run a chain of stores like this into the future," he told ABC's breakfast program. But it seems odd that ABC Shops would survive for 35 years - years that included introduction of online shopping, the global financial crisis, the strong Australian dollar and the soft retail economy - then close just as retail trade figures pick up. However, when you look at the statistics on CD and DVD sales, the trend is clear. Sales of music CDs in Australia have declined 72 per cent since 2005, a year when ABC Commercial pumped $15 million back into the broadcaster (which received $808 million in government funding that year).
CD sales dropped from 46 million CDs in 2005 to 12.5 million last year, according to the Australian Recording Industry Association. Even in 2012, about 27 million CDs were sold here, so the decline in the past three years has been particularly steep. The 2015 figures must be worse. Meanwhile digital album sales have increased from 91,000 in 2005 to 7.3 million albums in 2013. The number of music DVDs sold every year has dropped 83 per cent since 2005, from 4.4 million to 757,000 DVDs in 2014.Sales of entertainment DVDs, such as movies and television shows, have dropped from a peak of about 90 million DVDs in 2008 to around 55 million in 2014, according to the Australian Home Entertainment Distributors Association. Who knows what will happen to DVD sales with the introduction of several new streaming services this year, such as Netflix and Stan. ABC Shops are managed by ABC Commercial, a branch of the broadcaster that also manages live appearances by ABC celebrities, produces and sells CDs, DVDs, books and audio books, produces eight magazines, sells ABC programs overseas and licences ABC footage to other broadcasters.
In recent years, ABC Commercial has not been contributing as much back to the mother-ship as it used to. It delivered just $1.4 million in the 2013-14 financial year, down from a peak of $19 million in 2005-06. These figures include all the activities of the commercial division, including selling programs overseas. (You would be surprised at how popular Dance Academy is South Korea.)In the 1990s the ABC's commercial arm operated 26 shops and 96 kiosks inside other retailers. It was contributing about $8 million a year to the broadcaster with the retail shops contributing about half of that figure, according to annual reports. It no longer reveals how much of ABC Commercial's revenue comes from retail shops. Head of ABC Commercial Robert Patterson said this morning the closure was "in keeping with the shift of ABC audiences to accessing content across an array of digital platforms, while maintaining an appropriate level of physical retail distribution". The shops won't disappear overnight, but will have a "phased exit" from stand-alone stores in shopping malls as leases come up for negotiation.