“Better book buys as prices slowly drop”, Sunday Times, 16th May 1993
Nigel Cox from Unity Books Auckland is quoted in this article about prices and standards in the New Zealand book industry.
Nigel Cox from Unity Books Auckland is quoted in this article about prices and standards in the New Zealand book industry.
The New Zealand Book Awards for 1993 featured wins by two Wellingtonians: Andrew Johnston for his book of poetry How To Talk, and Damien Wilkins for his novel The Miserables.
Our Christmas bribery advertisement from 1993.
A selection of Christmas advertisement ideas and designs from 1990-1993.
An advertisement for a reading from Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Random House).
This summary of various ways to improve profitability in bookselling is taken from an article in Publishers Weekly.
Beheaded, exiled, murdered, whipped, burnt, mutilated, stabbed, imprisoned, starved or dead from grief. Who knew books could be so dangerous? (We knew).
Unity Books took a pro-active approach, outlined below, on learning that Whitcoulls had purchased the London Bookshops chain.
An extract from Turning the Pages: The Story of Bookselling in New Zealand by Anna Rogers and Max Rogers, published by Reed Publishing for Booksellers New Zealand, 1993.
Armistead Maupin, author of the Tales of The City series, came to Unity Books to read from his stand-alone novel Maybe the Moon, before he headed down to Akaroa to…