N.Z. Publishing Firm’s Australian Success
(Special Crspdt. N Z PA.) SYDNEY, December 28
The New Zealand publishing firm, A. H. and A. W Reed, which began business in Australia 18 months ago. has amazed Australian publishers by producing the two best-sellers in Sydney bookshops in the pre-Christmas buying spree. One of the books is by an Australian author. The other deals with the collision of the ships, the Voyager and the Melbourne. The company is also finding regular sales for three other books, on aboriginal legends and fables, written by a New Zealander.
The Voyager story, “One Minute of Time,” by ViceAdmiral Harold Hickling, who lives at Turangi, has sold more than 7000 copies since publication in Novem ber. Both that and the other best seller, “The Yarns of Billy Borker,” by Frank Hardy, are in their second printing, and Mr John Reed, the company’s manager in Sydney, claims that if Graham Kerr’s “Entertaining With Kerr” had not run out of print, it would have been the biggest Christmas seller in Australia this year. Reeds have long had most of their New Zealand books printed in Australia. “We ' thought it was time that we ' improved the balance by , starting up over here,” said!, Mr Reed. 1|
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30945, 29 December 1965, Page 10
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