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We were very sorry to hear of the radical ‘downsizing’ planned for the University Bookshop Otago.
One of the country’s best and most well-respected independent bookshops, UBS Otago will leave it’s famous Great King Street site and move into a modest space, where the emphasis will be on text books. Any bookshop closure is bad news, but UBS Otago has long been a literary hub for Dunedin, and it’s loss will hit that community very hard. Clare Maybe wrote a tribute to UBS Otago on The Spinoff.
Schrödingers Books in Petone wins NielsenIQ BookData Bookshop of the Year.
In much happier news, Schrödingers Bookshop in Petone, Wellington has won the award for Bookshop of the Year at the recent Book Industry Awards in Auckland.
Many other publishing luminaries were recognised on the night, including Carole Beu from The Women’s Bookshop, Wendy Tighe-Umbers from Time Out Books, Dave Cameron from Scorpio Books and Kevin Chapman from Upstart Press who all received Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Our good friends at Allen & Unwin New Zealand won New Zealand Publisher of the Year.
The remarkable Catherine Chidgey won the Bookseller’s Choice Adult Award for her novel The Book of Guilt, with chef and restaurateur Al Brown winning the Bookseller’s Choice Children’s Award for Hooked.
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