Respected Benjamin Trisk calls it quits at SA’s largest bookseller due to ‘breakdown in relationship among shareholders’ Benjamin Trisk. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA Benjamin Trisk, widely credited with saving SA’s book-selling industry as CEO of Exclusive Books, has elected to leave the country’s largest bookstore chain after reaching an “amicable settlement” with the board. At the…
Downloads have stagnated and Kindle sales have been slowing as people return to the printed page. Even so, SA booksellers are struggling. 25 MAY 2017 – 07:20 GIULIETTA TALEVI Benjamin Trisk: From 2013 e-book downloads have stagnated Freddy Mavunda The voluptuous pleasure of cracking the spine on a new novel may be one factor in…
Words Alexander Matthews Image: Aubrey Jonsson Benjamin Trisk It is nine in the morning in the Rosebank Mall. The glass doors of Exclusive Books are being pushed open, revealing a branch unlike any other: warm lighting, blonde racks crammed with books, armchairs and a beanbag in a nook. The new store opened in August and offers a glimpse of the ambitious vision that…
Published January 15, 2016 by Lisa Campbell Exclusive Books has redesigned its flagship Johannesburg store, with the result breaking “the shackles and restraints of the chain-store mentality” in order to make books “sexy” again. The South African chain, run by Benjamin Trisk, opened a flagship branch in Hyde Park Corner, Johannesburg, in December 2013. It…
Photo: Exclusive Books Book chain founder Philip Joseph dies Bookseller Philip Joseph, who co-founded UK bookshop chain Books Etc with his son Richard Joseph, has died at the age of 94. Philip Joseph first founded the Exclusive Books chain in South Africa, opening the initial bookshop with his wife Pamela Joseph in Johannesburg in…
We opened about 11 years ago, as Facts & Fiction. We were then bought by Exclusive-Books in 1998. Our store is situated on 1st floor Nelson Mandela Sqaure. We are directly opposite Pappas Restaurant, and 200 m west of Michaelangelo Hotel. It is with great regret that we have had to close Mandela…