Reed Publishing Ltd. is one of New Zealand's oldest publishers based in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, founded in 1907 by A H Reed

Alfred Hamish Reed

Alfred Hamish Reed, MBE was a New Zealand publisher, author and entrepreneur. A. H. Reed was born at Hayes, Middlesex, England, on 30 December 1875, the son of James William Reed and Elizabeth Reed. He migrated to New Zealand with his parents in 1887...

. It is a New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature

New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

 specialist and also general titles, publishing over 100 titles a year and including a number of significant New Zealand authors such as Barry Crump

Barry Crump

Barry John Crump MBE was a New Zealand author of semi-autobiographical comic novels based on his image as a rugged outdoors man...

, Janet Frame

Janet Frame

Janet Paterson Frame, ONZ, CBE was a New Zealand author. She wrote eleven novels, four collections of short stories, a book of poetry, an edition of juvenile fiction, and three volumes of autobiography during her lifetime. Since her death, a twelfth novel, a second volume of poetry, and a handful...

 and Witi Ihimaera

Witi Ihimaera

Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler, DCNZM, QSM , generally known as Witi Ihimaera , is a New Zealand author, and is often regarded as one of the most prominent Māori writers alive.-Biography:...

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In 2007 it changed its name to Raupo Publishing (NZ). Raupo is Maori

Maori language

Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...

 for bulrush (reedmace or cattail: Typha

Typha

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). It is currently an imprint of the Penguin Group

Penguin Group

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External links

• http://www.reed.co.nz
• Reed books at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
  New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
  The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre is a unit of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. The NZETC has an ongoing programme of digitisation and feature additions to the current...
  
  

Sources

• The New Zealand Writer's Handbook
• Writers & Artists' Yearbook
• http://bpanz.org.nz/links.html
• http://www.reed.co.nz/ Website prior to domain name expiry.
• http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10477395