{"id":234243,"date":"2026-06-20T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234243"},"modified":"2026-06-20T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T13:54:31","slug":"over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=234243","title":{"rendered":"Over half of Australia\u2019s bookshops closed within a decade. Should the government help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s bookshops are in trouble, and that\u2019s bad news for readers. But there are ideas we could borrow from Europe to help make our bookshops healthy again&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-283605\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s bookshops are in trouble, and that\u2019s bad news for readers. But there are ideas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help.jpg",1356,668,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-300x148.jpg",300,148,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-768x378.jpg",640,315,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-1024x504.jpg",640,315,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help.jpg",1356,668,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help.jpg",1356,668,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-1024x504.jpg",1024,504,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/234243-over-half-of-australias-bookshops-closed-within-a-decade-should-the-government-help-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}