John Allen

In 2010 the Booksellers New Zealand conference was held in Auckland. The venue was The Langham Hotel.

Booksellers holds a conference each year in major venues across New Zealand. It's a chance to meet other people in the trade, hear the latest information from world-class keynote speakers and celebrate everything that is books and reading.

Read articles from our 2010 conference.

Speaker: John Allen

John Allen's presentation, 'Nation-building with books', was an inspiring experience at the Booksellers NZ Conference, Sunday 29 August 2010. Video footage of his presentation is now available to view in two parts here:

John Allen - Chief Executive and Secretary of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Couldn’t get to conference? Here's a quick and easy summary.

Booksellers are suffering in the current recovery-from-recession phase, but speakers at Booksellers Conference last weekend projected a confident future. Yes, e-books will impact on trade – but ABA’s Len Vlahos showed how they can work for independent booksellers.

The Read will cover the key speakers in detail over following issues, but right now here’s the conference in a capsule:

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 the New Zealand Post Book Awards ceremony was hosted at Parliament by Hon. Judith Tizard, Associate Minister of Arts, Culture & Heritage.

It was one of the gala events of the year!

View photos of the event in the gallery below.

The awards ceremony for the 2008 New Zealand Post Book Awards was held on the evening of Wednesday 21 May at the Wellington Town Hall.

The entrance to the Wellington Town Hall was transformed into an enchanted forest, complete with toadstools, fairylights and a pathway made from the jacket covers of the 2008 finalist titles.