Booksellers Conference Awards, 30th June 2011
Both the Wellington and Auckland shops were nominated as Thorpe-Bowker Independent Bookseller of the Year in 2011.
Both the Wellington and Auckland shops were nominated as Thorpe-Bowker Independent Bookseller of the Year in 2011.
A special feature about books including detailed articles about publishing and bookselling appeared in Thursday magazine on 29th November 1973, liberally interspersed with advertisements from publishers and booksellers.
An article by The Independent discusses the fortunes and management moves of three big bookselling chains.
Everyone at Unity Books (and elsewhere in the book trade) was horrified when we learned that the head of Te Papa was considering closing down or suspending Te Papa Press….
Unity Books launched Beyond Wittgenstein’s Poker: New Light on Popper and Wittgenstein by Peter Munz, published by Ashgate. Below is the launch speech.
An article in The Listener assessing the impact of Borders opening in Auckland. In an interesting pair of forecasts, Flying Pig founder predicts independent bookstores as the likely losers, while…
A few weeks after Bloomsbury published Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J K Rowling, this article by Noel O’Hare about deep-discounting, loss-leading and counter-strategies used by various…
After the launch of Songs From the Violet Cafe by Fiona Kidman, Tom Beran of Random House NZ Ltd – the publishers – sent Unity a copy of Witi Ihimaera’s…
Graeme Beattie posted the following article about Unity Books on his book-trade blog, giving us a good plug for our newsletter.
Kiran Dass interviewed Tilly Lloyd about Unity, writing and Wellington – this is the unedited version.