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Montana Award winners

The Booksellers NZ annual conference concluded on Monday night with the presentation of New Zealand's premier book prizes, the Montana Awards. Charlotte Grimshaw (pictured, photo courtesy of Rand...

NZ awards galore

The Sunday night of the recent Booksellers New Zealand conference saw the Penguin NZ-sponsored conference dinner and industry awards, held in Wellington's impressively restored Town Hall, which was de...

Booksellers NZ conference

The 87th annual Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Wellington on Sunday and Monday.  While the general feeling in the NZ trade is that times are tough--one industry veteran told WBN t...

New look for NZ's Paper Plus chain

New Zealand's Paper Plus chain stores are in the process of unveiling a new look.  The multimillion-dollar overhaul began in Tauranga last week, as reported by The Dominion Post.   The ...

Obscure 19th-century NZ sci-fi book hailed as a pioneer

The Great Romance, an obscure sci-fi novella first published anonymously in New Zealand in 1881, is now being hailed internationally as a pioneer of the genre.

A&U expands New Zealand team

Allen & Unwin New Zealand has appointed Nicola McCloy to the newly created role of commissioning editor.  The appointment means that New Zealand titles currently produced out of Sydney in Aus...

Montana New Zealand Book Awards finalists announced

The Montana New Zealand Book Awards celebrate the best books written and illustrated by New Zealanders each year.  Awarded in the fields of fiction, poetry, history, biography, reference & an...

In Brief

New NZ book review websiteNZ-based Scoop Media has launched The Scoop Review of Books online at http://books.scoop.co.nz. The site, edited by Jeremy Rose, will promote books and authors with reviews, ...

NZ Post awards finalists

The finalists in the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The twenty titles are:  Picture BookThe King’s Bubbles (Ruth Paul, Scholastic NZ) Out of the Egg (Tina Matth...

NZ distributor Forrester goes into liquidation

In news breaking just as WBN goes to print, New Zealand-based independent book distributor Forrester Books has reportedly gone into liquidation. According to a story posted on an NZ new...
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