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DigiDirect chief executive and Booktopia’s new boss Shant Kradjian has kept a low profile.

‘Don’t want the limelight’: Who is Booktopia’s low-profile new boss?

Not all Australians have heard of camera retailer DigiDirect, much less its owner, Shant Kradjian, a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Sydney.

  • Jessica Yun

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Consumer electronics retailer digiDirect’s founder Shant Kradjian is the new owner of Booktopia.

‘Sleeves are rolled up’: New Booktopia boss on revitalising the business

Booktopia has been rescued by the owner of online camera store digiDirect, Shant Kradjian, who is adding 100 jobs back to the collapsed bookseller.

  • Jessica Yun
Inside Booktopia’s Lidcombe, NSW warehouse in 2017.

Booktopia axes 165 jobs as administrators field interest from 60 parties

Barely two dozen employees remain at the embattled book retailer whose administrators found the business didn’t have the funds to retain them.

  • Jessica Yun
Booktopia co-founder Tony Nash returned to the company after being ousted by the board

A series of unfortunate events: Demise of Booktopia is a page turner

A blindingly bright-coloured flag appeared only a month ago when the listed company told the market that directors’ fees for the year would be paid by issuing shares, rather than in cash.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Tony Nash’s Booktopia has been handed over to administrators.

Online bookseller Booktopia enters voluntary administration; Dymocks circles

The embattled retailer has appointed voluntary administrators after several months of trying to secure funding.

  • Jessica Yun

Booktopia might be on the brink, but your local bookshop probably isn’t

As Australia’s largest online bookseller struggles to forge a viable business model, many independent booksellers have found ways to thrive.

  • Jessica Yun
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Bookseller Booktopia takes desperate steps to survive

As its chief executive resigns, the online bookseller has arranged $1 million in emergency financing in an effort to stay afloat.

  • Derek Rose
ACCC commissioner Liza Carver said it was not known how many Booktopia consumers might have been deterred from getting a refund.

Booktopia ordered to pay $6m over refund claims

The consumer watchdog took the online bookseller to court in 2021 after it told shoppers they had to notify the company of faulty orders within two days for refunds.

  • Emma Koehn
Former Booktopia CEO Tony Nash in happier times.

Booktopia cuts 40 jobs in bid to rewrite earnings story

Australia’s largest online book retailer announced cost cuts on Monday, aimed at saving at least $12 million, as it aims to turn the page on its performance.

  • Millie Muroi
Corporate Australia produced low lights, highlights and the in between.

The hapless, the almost reformed and Mike Cannon-Brookes: Corporate Australia’s highlights for 2022

Corporate Australia battled a much harder economic landscape than it expected during the year, but most attention was on board stoushes, hackers and a big move by the Big Australian.

  • Sarah Danckert

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