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Pair of second hand bookshops open next door to each other in Christchurch

“Christchurch really needs more quality second-hand book stores.” ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Paul Edwards wants Book Barn to become part of a book destination in east Christchurch. Ling had long wanted to open a bookstore and eventually found an empty shop on Ferry Rd. The neighbouring shop was also empty, so he asked his friend Paul Edwards, who runs the Chertsey Book Barn south of Rakaia, if he wanted to open next door. “The opportunity was there. He thought it would be a good mix. We are trying to complement each other and not compete.’’ ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Edwards said the two bookstores were a bigger draw together.

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Second-hand bookstores defeat Covid

Second-hand bookstores defeat Covid © Provided by Newsroom Back from the lockdown brink, many Kiwi second hand bookshops are flourishing at least while the domestic tourist boom continues. Matteo Di Maio reports Lockdown. An almost total absence of overseas tourists. A fragile industry at the best of times. And yet, Kiwi second-hand bookstore owners say, business is booming. Sales are currently above pre-Covid levels, said Rachel Pope, the owner of books in central Hamilton. “It’s been really good great books coming in, great books going out.” Further North, Chloe Clennell from Piggery Secondhand Bookshop in Whangarei concurred: “We’ve been incredibly busy since lockdown,” she said. “I think perhaps people have realized that reading isn’t too bad. And while they were in lockdown it was actually a pretty cool thing to do. We had people come in and say: ‘Look, I’ve read everything in my house, please can I have more books.’ And they got into the

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