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2026 Booksellers Conference Programme

THE DETAILS

Date & Time
Friday 24 July, 7am–5.30pm
Venue
AUT Events Centre – WG Building
74 Governor Fitzroy Place, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010

FULL PROGRAMME

Welcome — 8am

  • Market Insights with Nevena Nikolic, Territory Manager NZ for NielsenIQ BookData
  • Children’s Book Week with Juliette Blyth, Chief Executive of Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
  • Children’s Book Week — The Workshop

Morning Tea

  • The Keynote with Kate De Goldi, Te Awhi Rito New Zealand Reading Ambassador
  • Bookselling Scholars Report with Māia Te Whetū and Anna Hedley
  • Email Marketing Masterclass with Glenn Edgley, Mailchimp & Spikemail

Lunch

  • Bookshop Day 2026 artist & artwork unveiling
  • Exit Strategy: Looking at modern bookshop succession with Link Business Brokers
  • Succession Case Studies with Jenna Todd, Jay Lansdown and Graeme Holmes
  • Q&A with Gavin Williams, ABA President and owner of Matilda Bookshop

Afternoon Tea

  • Is the romance genre a bookselling bubble or bedrock? A panel discussion between publisher Kate Stephenson, author Jackie Ashenden and specialist bookseller Ruby Wallace from Enamoured Books.
  • The Booksellers Brief: Three upcoming campaigns from your booksellers association with Renee Rowland and Naoise O’Donoghue
  • Community Forum (45m)
  • AGM

Cocktails & Catch-Ups — from 6pm
Wind down and catch-up with long-distance friends, or make new connections, over cocktails and canapes at the Sunset Rooftop Bar in the Sudima Hotel.

Venue
Sunset Rooftop Bar in the Sudima Hotel
10th Floor/63-67 Nelson Street, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010

A huge thank you to our generous Conference sponsors: HarperCollins Publishers Aotearoa New Zealand, Narseys Distribution, Libro.fm, and Te Papa Press. We couldn’t do it without you.