"It's not an industry problem, it's a particular business problem," Mr Egan said, describing the business' structure and scale as a "value-destruction exercise".

This little statement is so under-explained, and yet its probably the most important statement in the article.

Instead of wasting a bunch of lines at the end by tacking on that human interest story trash, the writer/editor should have spent those words explaining the problem with the business structure.

In its initial public offering in 2020, Booktopia issued shares at $2.30 and debuted on the ASX at $2.86.

The stock has since lost more than 98 per cent and last traded at $0.045.

..wow lol

"There's no doubt, some of the bleed from online will go to Amazon," he said, describing the prospect as worrying.

How many major competitors remain?

First Book Depository, and now Booktopia. This is freaking tragic 😥

I would have bought from booktopia more often but because I use privacy extensions it became impossible to use. I'd get flagged as a not and couldn't do anything on the site.

This is probably an edge case but it was one of the problems with the site on top of everything else