Exclusive Books readies for next court fight to keep airport stores
THE usual airport book fare of easy reading thrillers or romances with glitzy covers are not necessarily top of the list for tourists who frequent Exclusive Books’ airport stores.They are more likely to buy Justice Malala’s We Have Now Begun our Descent, or RW Johnson’s How Long Will SA Survive, both among the bestsellers at Exclusive’s stores in the OR Tambo, Cape Town, and Durban international airports."We sell a lot of South African nonfiction and fiction in our airport shops, though about 50% of their sales are magazines," says Exclusive’s Benjamin Trisk.He said the stock profile of the airport stores differed from the group’s other stores, with travellers keen to read "a lot of African politics and policy".But Exclusive is fighting to hold on to its stores in the OR Tambo and Cape Town airports, as it prepares for another round of litigation with the Airports Company SA (Acsa).In June 2014, Acsa awarded the tender for the Exclusive store at OR Tambo International to a company, ...
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