Diary of a plague year
The global pandemic has been a boon for book sales in New Zealand, and local books in particular.
Kiwis have spent some $100 million on print books this year so far. And although the $97 million we paid by the end of October is down 6.5% compared with the year before, since the end of May we spent more on books every single week – Auckland’s extra two-week lockdown aside by Nielsen BookScan.
