Frankfurt 2012 opens, spotlight on New Zealand
Wilkins Farago publisher Andrew Wilkins writes: The 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair opens today, with New Zealand this year’s Guest of Honour. Forty-eight exhibitors from Australia are participating, with the Australian...
New children’s publisher to launch in New Zealand
A new children’s publisher will launch in New Zealand in November. Book Island, founded by owner and publisher Greet Pauwelijn, originally from Belgium, will launch with three picture books,...
Booksellers NZ discontinues Premier Bestsellers program
Booksellers NZ has announced it has discontinued a program established to label books that achieved a certain level in sales. The Premier Bestsellers program has been discontinued following discussions within...
New Zealand Frankfurt Guest of Honour program announced
The Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour program has been announced. As the 2012 Guest of Honour, New Zealand will send more than 60 authors and 100 performers to Germany...
Dymocks Ponsonby closes
Dymocks has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the Dymocks store in Ponsonby, Auckland, has closed. A spokesperson for Dymocks told Bookseller+Publisher that the store finished trading towards the end of 2011...
Bolinda opens New Zealand office
Australia-based audiobook publisher Bolinda Publishing has established an office in Auckland, New Zealand. Bolinda co-CEO Rebecca Hermann told the Weekly Book Newsletter that two full-time local staff, sales executives Ed...
McKinnon, Williams win NZ CLL Writers’ Awards
The winners for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers' Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are New Zealand's richest for nonfiction....
Finalists for Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust book awards annoucned
As reported by Booksellers NZ, the finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award have been announced. The finalists are: Hidden Country: Having faith in Aotearoa New Zealand (John...
REDgroup administration: New Zealand DOCA
As reported in a Weekly Book Newsletter Special Bulletin on 27 July, REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson will hold a 'watershed' creditors' meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, on 4 August to...
REDgroup administration: 37 A&R stores, 1 Borders store to close; 321 staff affected
REDgroup administrators Ferrier Hodgson have announced that 37 Angus & Robertson stores and one Borders store in Australia will close, ‘over the next three weeks’.‘A total of 321 REDgroup Retail...
REDgroup administration: No NZ closures in ‘initial phase’ of restructure, creditors’ committees appointed
REDgroup adminstrators Ferrier Hodgson have confirmed that no New Zealand bookstores would be closed and no redundancies were planned in New Zealand 'as part of the initial phase of the...
Earthquake hits Christchurch
Following yesterday's earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, Booksellers NZ is reporting updates from its members on the association's website. Booksellers NZ reports that Children's Book Shop Christchurch manager Mary Sangster...
Macmillan to close NZ distribution warehouse
Macmillan Publishers New Zealand has announced that it will close its New Zealand distribution warehouse from January 2011. The publisher will manage the New Zealand distribution of its titles from...
Price wins 2011 Mansfield Literary Prize
Wellington poet and creative nonfiction writer Chris Price has been awarded the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. The prize enables a New Zealand writer to work at the Villa Isola...
NZ Translation Grants Scheme Announced
Creative New Zealand has announced that it will support a new Translation Grant Scheme to encourage the translation of New Zealand literature into foreign languages. The scheme, which will be...
NZ Booksellers conference: Nielsen figures, Book Month to move to March
The Booksellers NZ annual conference, held in Auckland from 29 to 30 August was covered in some detail in the Booksellers NZ newsletter The Read. ‘The feedback we have received...
Sony launches two new ereaders, announces REDgroup partnership
Sony has announced the release of two new e-ink ereader devices, due to come to Australia and New Zealand next week, and has also revealed it will partner with REDgroup...
Sony launches two new ereaders, announces REDgroup partnership
Sony has announced the release of two new e-ink ereader devices, due to come to Australia and New Zealand within days, and has also revealed it will partner with REDgroup...
New Zealand ebook converter and retailer ‘MeBooks’ launches
New Zealand ebook converter MeBooks has launched at www.mebooks.co.nz. The site has been created by Jason Darwin, who told the Weekly Book Newsletter he had had ‘a mixed career in...
Paper Plus Taupo and Take Note Caterton winners at Paper Plus awards
Paper Plus Taupo and Take Note Carterton were awarded the National Store of the Year awards at the Paper Plus Group gala dinner held in Rotorua, New Zealand on 5...