Notices & Reminders

Booksellers NZ has been advised that the following New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards finalist titles are in short supply:

An opportunity has arisen for a bookshop to exhibit at the Wellington Food Show 2010, at Westpac Stadium, 14-16 May 2010. 

This is a wonderful opportunity for a bookseller to make exclusive book sales and sales are driven by having celebrity chef signing books after every cooking demonstration, which is usually hourly.

Spotted, like the first cuckoo in spring, The Read has spotted the first e-reader in Wellington, in Post Office Square (outside the French Kiss Coffee Cart).

Congratulations to Steele Roberts!

Their poetry title, The Art of Walking Upright, by Glenn Colquhoun, has been accredited with PLATINUM status (one of only three poetry books to have earned this position)!

Want to win your own copy? This month we're having a Premier New Zealand Bestsellers Colquhoun giveaway! Click here to find out more.

Gecko Press is now housed at 25 B Tennyson St and we are looking for other small businesses or sole operators to share our space.

VIEW THE AD ON TRADE ME HERE

The Auckland Local Publishers Forum AGM is to be held on Thursday, 18 March, 5.30pm (for a 6pm start) at the Penguin New Zealand offices on Apollo Drive. 

ALL WELCOME.

Please advise of any agenda items and RSVPS to mail@lpf.org.nz

Drinks & nibbles provided.

Hachette NZ would like to congratulate Paper Plus Orewa who are the winners of our Bequest competition. They have won a hamper filled with Russian treats. 

Bequest is the thrilling debut novel of Russian author A.K. Shevchenko
(Headline, 9780755356362).

Booksellers NZ Annual Conference is to be held at the Langham Hotel, Auckland on Sunday 29 August. This follows the New Zealand Post Book Awards at the Langham on Friday 27 August, Fringe Events on Saturday 28 August and the traditional Business Meeting Day for the trade will be held on Monday 30 August.  Please mark these dates (27-30 August), in your diaries now.

Electricity supply at a 12 % discount will be available to BSNZ members throughout the country as the result of a new partnership deal with Meridian Energy .

Booksellers Membership Manager Cherie Arnott told The Read that the arrangement with Meridian Energy was the latest deal in the ongoing development of services to BSNZ Members.
“We are delighted to welcome Meridian Energy as our new business partner,” she said.