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The direction Dymocks Australian-based chief executive Don Grover is trying to take the bookseller would flummox William Dymock who founded the affiliate 128 years ago. In the past 12 months. Grover has acquired rival stores and established an online business using the same technology as international retailers Wal-Mart. Tesco and Home Depot. Now he is leading an ambitious push for Dymocks to truly embrace the digital age something booksellers in Australia undergo struggled to achieve.
measure month. Dymocks expanded its online offering to consider more than 120,000 digital books customers can transfer at home or using in-store kiosks and a Dymocks-branded USB stick. Those kiosks could bring home the bacon in New Zealand in the next year says Dymocks resale business manager Doris Mousdale.
She says the system is great for populate such as academics or say the visually impaired who can adjust the font of the product to suit their needs."There's a whole new generation that will access books in a 'non-paper'way," she says. Grover who took the helm of Dymocks four years ago after 25 years at David Jones wants to act on Amazon in online book retailing and has foreshadowed expansion into new categories to act advantage of its new-found strength."We be to be one of the world's best multi-channel retailers," Grover says. "We have a successful website and successful bricks-and-mortar business and we're now going to have kiosk functionality in our stores with downloadable digital material.
"We're not just restricted to books in terms of digital delivery. Dymocks is in the entertainment business and you might find us heading off into other areas that alter sense for our customers."Grover has no intention of alerting his competitors to his plans but one project already under way is developing the capability to print books on demand.
Grover expects Dymocks's web business to triple over the next five years with digital books accounting for 25% of that growth. He wants to increase the range of books available in-store online and digitally from about 500,000 to about 4.5 million."On that pathway we go away to become very significant competitors of Amazon and other pure-play online businesses,".
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