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National Year of Reading 2012 patron announced Author William McInnes has been announced as the patron of the National Year of Reading 2012. Chair of the National Year of Reading founder partners...
Walker establishes publishing consultancy business
Former publishing director of Penguin New Zealand Geoff Walker has established a new publishing consultancy business in Auckland. Walker told the Weekly Book Newsletter that he will work with authors,...
Changes at Penguin NZ
Raewyn Davies and Rachel Dewhurst have joined the publicity department at Penguin New Zealand, replacing Philippa Muller and Gina Colcord. Muller has left the company after having a baby while Colcord...
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iPad launches in NZ; 'Hairy Mclary' app at #1Apple has launched its iPad in New Zealand. Since the release of the iPad on Friday 23 July, Penguin Books New Zealand's Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dai...
Walker to leave Penguin New Zealand
Geoff Walker, publishing director at Penguin New Zealand, has announced he is leaving the position to ‘pursue other opportunities'. A statement from Penguin New Zealand said Walker would le...
Ihimaera offers to buy back books
New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera (The Whale Rider, Raupo) has offered to buy back all the remaining copies of The Trowenna Sea (Raupo), reports the New Zealand Herald. The offer comes after the ...
Ihimaera apologises for unacknowledged passages in new novel
Penguin New Zealand publishing director Geoff Walker has said The Trowenna Sea by Witi Ihimaera (Raupo) will not be withdrawn from sale, following the author's admission that the novel includes unattr...
Penguin NZ to acquire Mallinson Rendel Publishers
Penguin New Zealand has agreed to purchase the assets of New Zealand publisher Mallinson Rendel Publishers. ‘The change of ownership will take place on Friday, 18 December,' wrote publishe...
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