Michael King thank you letter, 7th February 2000
A letter of thanks from Michael King, regarding preparations for the Readers & Writers festival.
Tag Archives: 2000
Staff meeting agenda, 2nd February 2000
The agenda for the staff meeting held on 2nd February 2000 included a conundrum about reserving books when they don’t have an official ISBN, people not paying for their food…
Shelving test, 2000
A shelving refresher test. The handwriting looks like Simie Simpson or Rebekah Wilson-Lye, but it could be Tilly Lloyd.
Kapiti Library supply, 27th September 2000
Unity Books has a strong history of supplying libraries, both by contract and on a casual basis. This letter to Kapiti Public Library in response to a query outlines our…
Dedication at the opening of Oscar Wilde Park, 6th October 2000
Michael O’Leary’s dedication at the opening of Oscar Wilde Park, 6th October 2000.
International Suppliers, 19th April 2000
An example request for foreign currency drafts to pay international suppliers in April 2000.
History Table Shelving Map, 2000
Damian Skinner created this map to help with shelving various topics thematically within the history section of the shop. It’s somewhat telling that a large proportion is “War war war…
“Harry Potter and the sale below cost” article, The Listener, 18th November 2000
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…
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…
Margin Squeeze, Waikato Times, 2000
An article in the Waikato Times about the effects chain bookstores’ policies of loss-leading bestselling titles has on smaller or independent bookshops.
