Tauranga bookshop, Random House scoop awards

Tauranga bookshop & Random House scoop book industry awards

The 2007 THORPE-Bowker New Zealand Book Industry Awards, were announced at the annual New Zealand book awards dinner tonight at SKYCITY, Auckland.

The awards celebrate outstanding achievement in New Zealand bookselling and publishing and are voted on by booksellers and publishers across the country. They were presented alongside the Spectrum Print Book Design Awards and the Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award.

The winning book shops were:

* The THORPE-Bowker Independent Bookshop of the Year Award
Books A Plenty in Tauranga, owned and operated by Chris and Warren Baskett.

* The THORPE-Bowker Group Bookshop Award
Dymocks Booksellers Lambton Quay in Wellington and Borders in Auckland (joint winners).

* The THORPE-Bowker Regional Bookseller of the Year:
University Book Shop (Otago) Ltd, in Dunedin.

In announcing the bookselling awards, THORPE-Bowker publisher Andrew Wilkins emphasised the role the awards played in reminding New Zealanders of the importance of book shops to the New Zealand community.

‘Whether you’re an adult or a child, There are some experiences you simply can’t replicate online, and the tactile joy of browsing in your local bookshop, and getting on first-name terms with your local bookseller, is undoubtedly one of them,’ he told the sell-out audience of industry heavyweights and authors.

The publisher awards were dominated by one company—Random House New Zealand—which won every award available.

* The THORPE-Bowker Award for New Zealand Publishing
Random House New Zealand (runner-up: Craig Potton Publishing). Voters praised the consistent high standard of their New Zealand publications.

* The THORPE-Bowker Award for Promotional and Sales Support
Random House New Zealand (runner-up: Penguin New Zealand)

* The THORPE-Bowker Award for Agent/Distributor representing Overseas Publishers
Random House New Zealand (runner-up: HarperCollinsPublisher New Zealand)

* The THORPE-BOWKER Award for Sales Rep of the Year
Marthie [pron. ‘Marty’] Markstein, Random House New Zealand

About THORPE-Bowker
THORPE-Bowker has been the information provider to the book industry in New Zealand and Australia since 1921. As well as publishing New Zealand Books in Print, the definitive guide to what is published in New Zealand, THORPE-Bowker also publishes trade journal BOOKSELLER+PUBLISHER magazine and its Weekly Book Newsletter (available online at www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au). It also supplies New Zealand and Australian book information to the world’s largest book database, GlobalBooksinPrint.com™.

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