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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 and...

Dymocks Lambton Quay closes, new Wellington store will open 'as soon as possible'

Dymocks will open a new store in the Wellington CBD area ‘as soon as possible', following the closure of its Lambton Quay franchise on Monday, according to Dymocks CEO Don Grover. ‘There's...

NZ Digital publishing seminars

Jillian Ewart of NZ's Bookseller's News reports: Martin Taylor's presentation on The Rise and Fall and Rise of E-books kick-started New Zealand's Digital Publishing Seminars last week. Digital Pu...

Quote of the week

‘The impact of the open market in New Zealand has been somewhat muted by the Australian conditions, but the introduction of an open market there could cause multi-national publishers to retrench...

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.

Promotions at Random House NZ for Moynahan and Ferns

The Random House Group has announced the promotion of Michael Moynahan (pictured) to chairman of Random House New Zealand (RHNZ). In addition to his new responsibilities in New Zealand, Moynahan will ...

Hardie Grant to set up NZ operation

Hardie Grant Books managing director Julie Pinkham has announced that the publisher will establish a sales and marketing operation in New Zealand from 1 September.  Hardie Grant will appoint a Ne...

The Nile offers a different online bookselling model

Australia and New Zealand both have new, dedicated online bookselling sites with the launch of TheNile.com.au and TheNile.co.nz.  ‘The Nile aims to provide Australian and New Zealand c...

TitlePage set to launch in NZ

The board of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has given the go-ahead for the development of a price and availability service for New Zealand booksellers. The service, which will b...

Google Editions: Palma outlines Google's ebook plans

As an addendum event to Monday's digital publishing symposium in Melbourne, a ‘digital chat' session featuring New Zealand Digital Publishing Forum founder Martin Taylor and Google's Chris Palma...
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