Staff meeting, 28th June 2001
News, views & issues from mid June 2001. LEAVE ALAN’S HOLE PUNCH ON HIS DESK, YOU MONSTERS!
Author Archives: Unity Wellington
“Chains battle over Fowl reprint”, The Bookseller, 25th May 2001
The Bookseller reports on the stoush between Ottakar’s and WH Smith, two British bookselling chains, over the latter’s deal with Penguin Books for an exclusive edition of Eion Colfer’s Artemis…
Bookseller articles, 18th May 2001
These two articles in the May 18th issue of The Bookseller caught Unity’s eye. The ideas outlined seem very different from the way bookshops in New Zealand tend to manage…
Parallel Importing Submission, 4th April 2001
Tilly Lloyd and Anna Applin made the following submission to the Ministry of Economic Development regarding the “Parallel Importing and the Creative Industries Discussion Document”.
World Book Day survey, 9th March 2001
The Bookseller (UK) ran this opinion piece on the usefulness (or not) of the results of the World Book Day survey which took place in the UK.
Staff Meeting, 7th March 2001
This meeting addressed record-keeping, upcoming events, general housekeeping and the critical need for remembering the alphabet when shelving books.
“Bringing it in: the NZ parallel importing debate”, Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine, 1st March 2001
Tilly Lloyd and Anna Applin were interviewed for this article about the distribution chain with regard to parallel importing, imports in general, copyright and piracy. It was published in the…
Staff meeting, 24 January 2001
The issues of the day: new table arrangements, the unfairness of smokers taking smoke breaks when non-smokers don’t, and the importance of answering the phone!
Christmas activity poll, 2001
Democracy in non-action! Despite the votes, Laser Force was the ultimate winner.
Waiting for the paperback, 2000-2004
Alan Preston was keen to get a copy of Western Front From the Air by Nicholas C Watkis (Sutton Publishing) in paperback. Despite the hardback coming out in 1998, there…
