‘104-Storey Treehouse’, the latest instalment by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton, has entered the Top 50 with an incredible 5659 sales since its release earlier in July. Scott Pape’s ‘Barefoot Investor’ has returned to second place, selling 957 copies, and Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ has slipped to third with 729 copies sold.
Year: 2018
System Updates 1 June – 30 June 2018
June has again been focused on optimisations, bug fixes and improvements plus the ongoing effort to get the Rails 4 upgrade over the line. Delaying R4 is to make sure that it can handle the load and that as many bugs as possible are out before we move everyone onto it. Thank you to the stores that have been beta testing the R4 version.
Circle Community Best Sellers – June 2018
David Walliams’ latest book ‘The World’s Worst Children #3’ is our June Best Seller, having sold 863 copies this month. Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ remains in the top three, selling 747 copies, and new release ‘Warlight’ by Michael Ondaatje has taken third place with 626 sales.
System Updates 1 May – 31 May 2018
May was dedicated to improving the Agency and Distributor settings and the efficiency of setting up new stores, while we continue pushing towards upgrading the framework our application runs on from Rails 3 to Rails 4, which has proved to be quite the undertaking. The new Customer Order Interface is ready to look at and there is a video covering its features.
Circle Community Best Sellers – May 2018
Having been translated into over 30 languages, Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ is May’s Best Seller with 673 copies. Tim Winton’s ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ has slipped to second, selling 620 copies, and new to the top three is Gail Honeyman’s novel, ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’, which sold 587 copies this month.
Case Study: Barclay Books, New & Second-Hand Bookshop
In February 2016 Clayton and Barbara opened Barclay Books in the historic Western Australian town of York. It was a change in direction for the couple after 13 years of ownership of the Dymocks store in Perth’s Hay Street Mall. York was settled in 1831 and is the oldest inland town in WA, located approximately … Read More
System Updates 1 April – 30 April 2018
We are teetering on the edge of pushing the R4 upgrade and are trying to resolve all the issues before we do so. There comes a point when you have to push forward and we have named May 5th/6th as the day we will upgrade (unless a show stopper presents itself before then).
Circle Community Best Sellers – April 2018
Tim Winton’s ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ is the Circle Community Best Seller for the second month in a row, selling 777 copies. Mark Mason’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ and Scott Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor’ remain in the top 3, selling 711 and 601 respectively.
System Updates March 1 – March 31 2018
March has been spent improving the migration tool to speed up and improve the process of migrating data from other systems to Circle.
Circle Community Best Sellers – March 2018
Tim Winton’s latest novel ‘The Shepherd’s Hut’ is March’s Best Seller, selling 1722 copies. Followed by Andy Griffith’s ‘Terry’s Dumb Dot Story: A Treehouse Tale’ with 880 copies sold, and Mark Manson’s ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ remains in the top 3 selling 753 copies last month.