Organization:Auckland University Press

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Auckland University Press
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Parent companyUniversity of Auckland
Founded1966
Country of originNew Zealand
Headquarters locationAuckland
DistributionPotton & Burton (New Zealand)
Eurospan Group (UK)
Independent Publishers Group (US)[1]
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.press.auckland.ac.nz

Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. The Press currently [when?] publishes around 20 new books a year in history and politics, art and architecture, literature and poetry, Māori, Pacific and Asian Studies, science, business and health. It published its 500th book in 2005 of which 22 were prize winning publications.[2][better source needed]

Awards

Auckland University Press won the Most Beautiful Books Australia & New Zealand Award (2013) and its authors have won a number of national prizes.[3][better source needed]

Imprints

1966–1970: Published for the University of Auckland by the Oxford University Press

1970–1986: Auckland University Press/Oxford University Press

1986–: Auckland University Press

1995–1998: a small number of books carried the imprint Auckland University Press/Bridget Williams Books

See also

  • Holloway Press

References

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