Winners of THORPE-Bowker Awards announced

The winners of the 2011 THORPE-Bowker Awards were announced tonight, Sunday, 17 July at the Booksellers NZ Conference at Te Papa in Wellington.

The winners are:

THORPE-Bowker Regional Bookseller of the Year North Island
Benny’s Bookshop, New Plymouth

THORPE-Bowker Regional Bookseller of the Year South Island
Scorpio Books, Christchurch

THORPE-Bowker Group Bookseller of the Year
Paper Plus Wanaka

THORPE-Bowker Independent Bookseller of the Year
Unity Books, Wellington

THORPE-Bowker Award for Promotional and Sales Support
Penguin Group (NZ)

THORPE-Bowker Award for New Zealand Publishing
Random House NZ

THORPE-Bowker Award for Sales Rep of the Year North Island
Ross Lorimer (Archetype/Allen & Unwin)

THORPE-Bowker Award for Sales Rep of the Year South Island
Louise Crisp (Penguin Group (NZ))

THORPE-Bowker Award for Publisher of the Year
Random House NZ

See who the finalists were