Booktopia resumes trading after being sold to owner of online camera store digiDirect

All remaining employees will be retained and 100 new employees will be recruited after the sale of Australia's largest online bookseller

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Booktopia is taking orders again after Australia's largest online bookseller was sold to the owner of an online camera store in a deal completed late last week.

Shant Kradjian, the owner of camera store digiDirect, bought the bookseller, according to administrators McGrathNicol, resulting in the immediate resumption of trading.