{"id":726572,"date":"2026-06-10T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726572\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T03:57:12","slug":"has-the-number-of-bookshops-in-australia-really-halved-probably-not-but-we-should-still-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/726572\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the number of bookshops in Australia really halved? Probably not, but we should still be worried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday, 10 June 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a dramatic and depressing statistic: that in the decade to 2023, the number of bookshops in Australia roughly halved; but it\u2019s also based on unverified data and unlikely to mean what most readers think. A piece in the Conversation last week mentioned the statistic (also cited by the ABC&#8230; \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=feature\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Features<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 10 June 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing It\u2019s a dramatic and depressing statistic: that in the decade to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,64,63,11192,11195,11189,3952,11194,3331,11191,1736,44,11193,11190],"class_list":["post-726572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}