Sunday Tribune and Waterstones: latest casulties

jmayo

Well looks like Waterstones are shutting two high profile stores in Dublin city centre, the one on Dawson Street and the one in the Jervis Centre.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0201/waterstones.html

As someone who used to frequent the Dawson Street store I find the news sad.


And The Sunday Tribune is in receivorship.

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2011/0201/sundaytribune.html

Only plus to this story is that excuse for a businessman, simon kelly, may be out on his ear.

mike65

Waterstones in Cork remains open, the Dublin 1/2 area has too many large bookshops too close to each other. The Turbine has been limping along for years now.

later12

I have to say that although the quality of their service was almost second to none (Books Upstairs gets my vote in that regard), I always found Waterstone's to be distinctly overpriced compared to its competitors. There is a new retail environment and I'm not sure that Waterstone's have fully reacted to that, despite these two closures. I hope they can do more to protect their other stores from facing similar problems, both for the sake of the staff and for the dedicated service they invariably provide to customers.

As for the Tribune, its had more receiverships than we've had bad banks, and I hope for their sake they emerge from this in some viable form. However with the print newspaper industry as it is, I doubt it will ever be particularly viable and its financial problems will not really be so much a surprise to anyone as déja-vu.

RichardAnd

This is sad news for me as, like the OP, I visit the store often. I hope the staff can be redeployed

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johnnyskeleton

Waterstones is directly opposite a large hoggis figgis. Which are both owned by the same company. It has always struck me as kinda pointless to have the two side by side. At the very least, they should have different specialities in each one, but it seems like they just carry the same stock, more or less.

Aard

Hodges Figgis has a better range, and (marginally) lower prices.


If they're both owned by the same holding company, then it makes sense not to have them compete opposite each other.

jmayo

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

Waterstones is directly opposite a large hoggis figgis. Which are both owned by the same company. It has always struck me as kinda pointless to have the two side by side. At the very least, they should have different specialities in each one, but it seems like they just carry the same stock, more or less.

That always struck me as odd, especially since there are a couple of other bookshops in the vicinity.
But with their exit from Jervis Centre, is there any major bookshop there now ?
And I know Easons is basically at the end of the street.

For a lot of the books (specialist topics like aviation, technical, etc) I would purchase, I usually source on the internet and not always amazon either.

Then again it was nice to wander into those stores and have a mooch round. There is something nice about browsing in bookshops on wet miserable day.
You might spot something and just buy.

johnnyskeleton

Was in waterstones today. A film crew were interviewing a manager type and there were far more people in there buying books as there normally are (also far more than were in HF across the road). Clearly there is going to be a nostalgia thing going on.