Comparison shopping, 2007
One of our time & price tests for delivery from overseas websites. In this case our parcel from the online retailer ordered on 26th August arrived on 4th September with…
Logistics
Library Communications book, 2008
In 2008, Tobias Buck and William Dewey shared the Library supply role, and used this book to communicate when their shifts didn’t overlap. Schedules, job-specific vocabulary, work to do and…
Communications Book, August 2006
Selected pages from the Comms book of 2006 – a means of passing on important information when people’s shifts don’t overlap.
First Plastic Bag run, 2000
In 2000 we got our first run of customised plastic bags, featuring Nigel Cox’s text (riffing on Italo Calvino) and the names of several of our favourite local and international…
First Premises, 15-19 Willis Street, 4th April 1967
Correspondence relating to Alan Preston’s purchase of the old Oxford University Press showroom as the premises for the first incarnation of Unity Books.
Writers and Readers Week 2010 – The Aftermath
Lynley Edmeades and Katherine Tuthill after packing stock for Writers and Readers Week 2010.
Alan Preston to Baker & Taylor, 31st July 1990
A letter from Alan Preston to the US wholesale company Baker & Taylor, outlining the practical steps the Auckland shop are taking to pay accounts within a reasonable period of…
NZ Post Writers and Readers Bookseller Network, 18th October 1999
In preparation for Writers & Readers Week 2000, Unity set up a network of independent bookshops to ensure books for the festival would be available nationwide – a condition of…
Note from Jessica Hodgson, 27th March 1999
The benefits of having staff who write or are related to writers is demonstrated here. Jessica Hodgson was able to phone her grandfather, Lloyd Geering, to help supply a customer…
