I put an order in online from the US and never received my product. While I placed this order in…read moreOctober of 2011. Sometime has seriously passed- without a word since March. While I do not want to slander the person handling (or the lack of) handling my case. I do have email correspondence that died off with no follow-up. I would like a refund for my product that never was shipped. I'm sure this company is not bad, but the folks in-charge are just too busy or can care-less. Leaving customers hanging and ripping them off is not the way to do business, period. www.nationstate.com.au

A disclaimer before I start. I love magazines. One of my absolute all-time favourite books concerns…read moreHarold Hayes, the 1960s editor of Esquire magazine. So it should be clear then where I'm going to go with this. I am going to tell you, dear reader, that I love this place. Mag Nation is a magazine store. That is to say, they only sell magazines - no clear-lined writing books, no greeting cards, no pens and pencils and pencil sharpeners, no newspapers, no Archie comics (they do sell some comics but not Archie), they don't sell bus travel tickets, they don't sell cigarettes, no newspapers, no cold drinks. Magazines. That's it. And it's on two levels. That's two levels of magazines. You'll need more than pocket change. The magazines all vary in price and if you're literate and you have hopes, dreams, curiosities, interests, you will likely want to go out the store with more than one so be prepared to come in with a semi-fat wallet.

Extremely rude staff. The old woman behind the counter raised her voice at me and lost her temper…read morewhen I asked her why I was being overcharged for Powerball tickets. On another occasion, the younger man was dismissive and rude when I bought some items. I asked him how he was going, he just scanned my items and ignored me. They are not nice people and and not friendly towards their customers at all. I will not be returning to this store again.

If there's an unusual or foreign, or unusually foreign magazine that you are struggling to get your…read morehands on, then may I take this opportunity to recommend to you, the World Square Newsagent? I can? Thank you... I will. The World Square Newsagent on Pitt Street, down near, you guessed it, World Square, is just your average newsagents, they sell chocolate and gum, soft drinks, water, stationary, birthday cards, newspapers and magazines. But more importantly, they also import a lot of magazines from overseas. Something a lot of news agencies don' t to do, perhaps for the expense or the lack of confidence they have that the magazine will sell, being that most magazines have a shelf life of one month before they're yesterdays news. I scoured many a newsagent in the inner west, the northern suburbs and the middle of the city, till I finally came across World Square Newsagents. I was looking for an American publication called Script, and no body had it. I was beginning to lose heart. I knew I'd seen it before, I knew it existed, but where? When I entered the shop I realised that they had many more imports as well, not just from America, but from other countries as well. Unfortunately though, there are still issues. I had hoped to get the latest issue of Script, due out in September, but the delivery was running late, this is an import issue and no fault of the Newsagents. Just a juicy bit of information that's not actually juicy and barely qualifies as information.

Interesting selection of magazines and newspapers. They have Chinese language newspapers but only…read moreEnglish language magazines.

I decided that I would like to do some research into whether Australia publishes any humour…read moremagazines like 'The Onion' in the United States of America, so I walked into the Broadway shopping centre and into the Newsagency housed within. The first thing I noticed as I walked in was that behind the counter were four very attractive women. The next thing I noticed was four very attractive woman behind the, oh wait, sorry, the next thing I noticed was the large amount of magazines in this sizeable inner city newsagent. They had a huge range, every topic under the sun one would think, except for humour magazines. But I was quite impressed with their literary section, as most newsagents don't tend to have any. I thought about getting a writing magazine, but it was squarely focused on writing in pros and creating novels, generating ideas and beating writers block, I'm more interested in screenplays, but unfortunately they had nothing for me, (I've already read the current issue of 'Creative Screenwriter and Script') But yes, I took note that they stocked them both. I will return for the magazines, and that's the only reason. The last thing I need is another restraining order, I mean a first restraining order.

Broadway Newsagency is big. They have so many magazines that you could spend hours in here... not…read morethat you should, but if you are searching for a particular kind of magazine, or just browsing, then this is the place to come. I found a few for my dad for his birthday, all about folk music and guitar playing. I figured get him a few for his birthday to read, and then buy the subscription for xmas. Well it would have been clever but he hasn't said that he liked any of them... There is a huge range of cards for any occasion as well as stationery galore. I could spend ages looking at notebooks, but I wont walk about that.

Today, I visited here for Passport photo copy. It's really convenient location and it's just next…read moreto Woolworths supermarket. The owner helped me for everything and it took just for a second to get things done. Other services are lottery tickets, speed lottos, cards, magazines, stationaries, lollies and so on.

If you want to get a taste of what a newspaper-free world looks like to this check out this…read morenewspaper free-less newsagency. You may be disappointed, but that would only be if you love newspapers and theoretically (because WHO in reality WOULD) you hate magazines. But there's also something more to this place than bricks and mortar and magazines and stationary: the guy working behind the desk is super cool. And he doesn't look like your typical newsagent. That is to say, he looks exactly as you would expect someone to look if they were selling Le Monde/Esquire/Sports Illustrated/TIME/Der Spiegel/ Foreign Affairs magazine/Vogue/ Marie Claire etc etc etc etc. He's young (early 30s perhaps), he's culturally hip (Asian origin and dresses like a globetrotter), he's clearly well-read (on my last visit he suggested I check out an article in that particular week's TIME magazine about architecturally sustainable houses which he personally found very interesting) and he smiles. It has only just occurred to me that the previous paragraph might be mistaken for a promising personals ad so whatever you do, please, don't go in there looking for love. I don't have any info about the guy's personal life. But do check out the store. Who knows, it could be a look-in to the goings-on of the future.

Lots of books. There was a large amount of bilingual books although it was hard to findread more

After I was done with having lunch at The Galeries, I went upstairs to floor 2 to check this place…read moreout. They're a Japanese chain bookstore. I've been to their locations in Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA. My goodness, they had quite the extensive manga selection! Of course all of the super popular ones were available. If I had one of these bookstores closer to where I live, I would be giving them a lot of my money! Everything was so well organized, so everything was very easy to locate.

When I think newsagents, I remember the local newsagents from when I was 5 and I'd follow my dad in…read moreto buy lotto tickets whenever the jackpot got big enough. Always dusty old stores with blue carpet and never more than 3 customers, it was always a miracle that they survived just on selling lotto tickets, newspapers and red frogs, because it was always a rare sight to see anyone actually buy one of the exxy magazines or the overpriced stationary. Not that I would have noticed, I was always too busy pining after the lollies and hoping my dad was in a generous mood. No Red Clouds or Warheads here unfortunately, but they have a fantastic choice of magazines befitting it's prime location in the heart of hipsterdom. On its limited shelfspace, Crown St Newsagency has curated a neat collection of glossies ranging from your Who and OK!s to the standard Cosmos, Donna Hays, Smith Journals to the Monocles and Dumbo Feathers you'd be proud to display in the wicker basket at the front of your fixie. Some things never change though - there's still inexplicably never more than 3 people in here.

A trendy, chic and sophisticated book store at the Qantas Domestic Terminal at Sydney airport…read more Great for checking in here before boarding my flight back home to Melbourne from any of my Sydney business trips and time out with family. There is something unique (albeit interesting) maybe some captivating aura that makes you want to open up sesame and come inside here; especially if you love to bury your head in a book; and perhaps you have oodles of time (although rare) before you have to board your flight to wherever you are going. The space is open and inviting and airy; almost as if you are a guest at someone's house. Great hang out space with well presented books; and a great spot to also buy those spirituality books: think Eckhart Tolle in particular. Just terrific customer service as well, and it is kind of clever how there are two different 'vantage points' of getting in and out of this establishment with a quality cafe society within your grasp; almost at arms reach. If you are flying Qantas from Sydney airport; whenever you are and you love books: then you are in book heaven here. You will appreciate this space.