HarperCollins Australia

In New Zealand, the first publishing foray began in the late 1880s when the Glasgow-based company William Collins decided to start manufacturing school books in the local market instead of shipping them across the world. In 1889, orders for the top seven titles totalled over 91,000 copies – the equivalent of one Collins book for every school child in the tiny education-focused nation. By 1908, with business booming, the company built eight-storey premises in Wyndham Street, Auckland – the talles

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In New Zealand, the first publishing foray began in the late 1880s when the Glasgow-based company William Collins decided to start manufacturing school books in the local market instead of shipping them across the world. In 1889, orders for the top seven titles totalled over 91,000 copies – the equivalent of one Collins book for every school child in the tiny education-focused nation. By 1908, with business booming, the company built eight-storey premises in Wyndham Street, Auckland – the talles

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